Recent content from Claude Peck
When a sibling vanishes, three sisters are doing it for themselves in 'The Alternatives'
FICTION: A reunion in rural Ireland becomes a reckoning.
In novel, 'The American Daughters' are Black women, fighting to end slavery
FICTION: In Civil War-era New Orleans, an enslaved girl becomes a spy for the Union.
Book reveals where art history happened, with 7 queer artists as guides
NONFICTION: Traveling through time and space to capture "unrecorded history" in "Nothing Ever Just Disappears."
'Hilarious' and 'wrenching' novel 'Last Acts' depicts a hapless father and son
FICTION: John Updike's Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom meets Voltaire's optimistic Candide and Walter White of "Breaking Bad" in the hero of a deliriously dark debut.
Novel's Iranian characters struggle to be themselves in a repressive 'Country'
FICTION: Salar Abdoh's characters must keep their lives secret from their own government.
Review: Inspired by diaries, 'Room' author returns with 'spellbinding' 'Learned by Heart'
FICTION: Emma Donoghue's masterwork centers on the intoxication of young love at a girls' school.
Review: 'Swim Home to the Vanished' finds a young man transformed by grief
FICTION: A young man's quest for understanding takes him to a very fishy village.
Review: Friends and frenemies pursue life, love and MFAs at a Midwestern university
FICTION: Brandon Taylor follows grad school novel "Real Life" with another look at the lows of higher learning.
Review: 'Diary of a Misfit,' by Casey Parks
NONFICTION: A journalist chases "a good Southern tale" and discovers herself.
Review: 'Trust,' by Hernan Diaz
FICTION: In his engrossing second novel, Hernan Diaz gives us four versions of the life of an early capitalist.