DECENT PEOPLE by De'Shawn Charles Winslow received a fantastic review from The Wall Street Journal, where reviewer Tom Nolan praises the book as a “hard-hitting novel,” adding: “DECENT PEOPLE is an intriguing murder puzzle—and a good deal more. Thanks to richly detailed chapters that switch between multiple points of view, readers are drawn into the lives and memories of several West Mills citizens.” The novel was also featured on The Wall Street Journal’s roundup of “14 Books We Read This Month,” and Winslow appeared on the LARB Radio Hour podcast to discuss the book. Bloomsbury Publishing published DECENT PEOPLE on January 17, 2023.

Ramona Ausubel’s THE LAST ANIMAL received a starred Kirkus review. They rave: "Deadpan gems […] sparkle in just about every scene of Ausubel’s fourth volume of highly original fabulist fiction, which marries an extraordinary and slightly bananas scientific adventure with a deeply felt portrait of a mother and daughters healing from terrible loss...An amazing amount of humor, pizazz, wisdom, and wonder packed into a story that is essentially about processing grief." The book was also featured in Orion Magazine’s “The Most Anticipated Books of 2023 – as Flowers,” and Library Journal’s “Annual Books Preview.” Riverhead Books will publish the novel on April 18, 2023.

HOUSE OF COTTON by Monica Brashears received a wonderful review from Publishers Weekly. They rave: "[A] haunting and macabre debut...Magnolia is a wonderfully complex character...Brashears skillfully portrays the ease with which Magnolia pivots from her interventions in the spirit world to her interactions with Cotton and Eden’s paying customers. This is a fine testament to resilience.” Flatiron Books will publish HOUSE OF COTTON on April 4, 2023.

THE LAST ANIMAL by Ramona Ausubel received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The reviewer calls the book a “gem,” adding: “Ausubel is at her best when exploring the ties that bind, especially in a family flung into unprecedented circumstances. In charting the parallel worlds of grief, scientific devotion, and adolescence, Ausubel comes up with a seamless global caper that brims with compassion and makes the reader glad to be alive.” THE LAST ANIMAL was also included on most-anticipated lists from Today and Chicago Review of Books, and is a She Reads “Best Book Club Pick of 2023” for April. Riverhead Books will publish the novel on April 18, 2023.

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES received a wonderful review from Vulture. Reviewer Jane Hu writes: "Aviv’s chapters draw on her talent for narrative feature writing, as she weaves personal stories in and out of structural backdrops. Part reportage, part memoir, and part history, her book might also be read as a series of case studies…Aviv’s journalistic voice is deft, and she moves with a light touch. But in her hands, writing is revealed to be an obsessive act, even — perhaps especially — when it is also an attempt to heal." The book was also selected as a best-of title of 2022 by Mother Jones, AARP, and Fast Company. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.

In the book’s first trade review, Kirkus praises Emily Pennington’s debut memoir FERAL as “fierce, candid reading” and “a moving portrait of a woman who came into her own by learning to let go,” praising “the author’s unflinching honesty and the boldness of her inner and outer journeys.” Little A will publish the book on February 1, 2023.

A new Publishers Weekly review praises Mya-Rose Craig's BIRDGIRL as a “dynamic debut…[that] will inspire nature-minded readers.” Jonathan Cape published BIRDGIRL on June 30, 2022 in the UK, and Celadon Books will publish the book on March 28, 2023 in the US.

A rave review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune celebrates LIFE IS EVERYWHERE by Lucy Ives as “one of the year's most impressive books in any genre,” adding: “Ives’ new novel is unconventional and resourceful, sorrowful and perceptive, a challenging, rewarding book full of irreverent humor, rich imagery and engrossing digressions…[T]he sort of book that eludes all but the most talented of novelists.” Meanwhile The New Yorker commends the book’s “twisting and treacherous update on the adultery plot…like an encyclopedia whose every entry is at its heart an intimate betrayal.” Graywolf Press published the book on October 4, 2022.

Joseph Earl Thomas’ forthcoming SINK received a warm review from Publishers Weekly. They praise the memoir as a “wrenching debut,” adding: “Thomas’ prose delivers an emotional gut punch…The result is a lyrical exploration of identity and survival.” Grand Central Publishing will publish the book on February 21, 2023.

Namwali Serpell’s THE FURROWS received a stunning review from The Atlantic. Reviewer Tope Folarin writes: “[A] knotty, prismatic sophomore novel…[that] traverses many genres and points of view…Serpell is just such a scholar. And this ability to embrace different genres and forms of communication is evident in her fiction as well, especially in her debut, THE OLD DRIFT. In that capacious novel, she flits from historical fiction to contemporary fiction to science fiction. By comparison, THE FURROWS is a more concise affair, both in its narrative scope and its page count. Yet it is a robust tale, especially in its treatment of Wayne, who dies but never really seems dead…Serpell code-switches with ease, an ultimately crucial skill in a story that abounds with fluctuating realities. The book swerves from a realistic chronicle that bears all the markers of a grief tale to one that seems infused with magic, from standard-English dialogue to a pitch-perfect rendering of African American Vernacular English. Serpell also references and builds upon pop culture’s alternate-reality obsession, and the narrative vertigo that these stories induce in us. When I began reading the novel, I knew that Wayne had drowned in the ocean—but the power of Serpell’s storytelling was such that as the narrative progressed, I stopped being so sure.” THE FURROWS was also featured on The New Yorker’s list of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” alongside praise from their previous review for the novel: “Serpell’s second novel batters against the fixities of language like a moth at a windowpane…[T]hough the novel’s story lines turn and twist, the precision of Serpell’s language remains under exquisite control—while reminding us on every page that every story is necessarily an act of falsification.” Hogarth published the novel on September 27, 2022.