“How do we know who we are without others to reflect our personhood back at us?”  Literary author Quan Barry’s new novel The Unveiling is a psychological horror story set on an abandoned Antarctic island, where the surreal unsetting sun and blistering white environment slowly strips the cast of marooned vacationers of their identities.  Past blends with present, time becomes meaningless, and reality becomes as slippery as the ice.  The Unveiling gestures at an unsettling solipsism that is...

“If you can give the kids a good time then that’s all it’s for. Forget art and all that – that’s bullshit. If you can send that shiver...

In many ways Alma Katsu's new book Fiend is about the inertia of violence and lust for power that drives people growing up in the the shadow