https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/the-white-hot-by-quiara-alegra-hudes monthly 0.5 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/53b222be-3299-4cc6-b826-37a2257bce99/The+White+Hot.jpg Reviews - The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes The White Hot opens with April watching Noelle present a project to her fourth grade class. The project is the catalyst for April’s guilt. Noelle is a gifted child, in the same way April was, years ago before she was lost in the ever so common cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty that runs through her family. April sees Noelle’s depiction of her mother in the project titled “My Family Home”—an absent mother, an angry mother. The project offers April a painful truth. The Soto’s have always been angry, tracing all the way back to their immigration to America. They are a history of women abandoned by fathers. Noelle has already begun to internalize the emotional patterns that April recognizes all too well, passed down from her own mother and grandmother, women whose survival strategies have become an unwanted legacy. Overwhelmed and wracked with guilt, April knows she must leave, and in a moment of impulsiveness she buys a bus ticket and tells the clerk to make it one-way. “Far from home, I closed my eyes. Help me to reclaim what I thought was irreversibly lost. And the rock responded: The universe will build a home around you.” https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/going-to-zossen-by-av-pankov monthly 0.5 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/6b7c4abe-ee6d-4663-810b-8e155c021da2/Zossen-Final-CMYK-CUT-716x1024.jpg Reviews - Going to Zossen by A.V Pankov - “Sometimes you get sick of guilt, buckle so much under its cumulative strain that you give up the belief system that had caused you to feel it in the first place.” The core of Going to Zossen is the painful moral dilemma that plagues every individual in the novel, all in different ways. All around Vasily, his colleagues have begun to turn to their own forms of survival—stealing from the prison, lying, drinking—knowing that their only option is sacrificing others for their safety. Vasily’s internal struggle is lain out before him for the entirety of the novel. Does he persist in his goodness when, everywhere he turns, people are destroying the prison system he desperately hopes to reform? And at what point must he abandon his morality to protect himself and his family? At what point does he give in and succumb to the same corruption everyone else has already accepted? https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/dogs-by-c-mallon monthly 0.5 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/026d5e83-0710-47b1-aeba-4b0fe5917cef/dogs-9781668084427_hr.jpg Reviews - Dogs by C. Mallon Dogs is not an uplifting story. In fact, it was something closer to a nauseating spiral into a darkness that feels too intense to be possible for one character to endure. But there is a profound beauty in the prose that comes from Mallon’s stream-of-consciousness style writing. Hal is the light that carries the reader through the pages. There are no chapter breaks, no paragraph breaks, just Hal and the reader from start to finish, like a slow tour of his psyche. It’s an incredibly hard undertaking to write a book so drenched in tragedy without losing the reader along the way, and I think for some, Dogs is going to be hard to get through. But Mallon is intentional with Hal’s story. This is not merely for shock value. Hal’s past is obscured to us for much of the novel, but when it comes out, it’s not exactly a surprise. Hal is different, this he knows too well. But he’s such a vivid character. His relationships are so real, so true to what you’d expect from a group of boys on a wrestling team who spend most of their time together doing drugs and drinking until they can’t stand up straight. https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/the-safekeep-by-yael-van-der-wouden monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/e12f2246-a2a2-4277-b4f2-e94d1e7542d5/81sxKq4ZjAL._UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Reviews - The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden The Safekeep, set in the years after World War II, is not a story of The Holocaust—until it is. And then Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel is a poignant post-war narrative. But before that, The Safekeep is a novel told through the eyes of Isabel, the reclusive daughter of a wealthy family, living in her childhood home after the death of her parents. Though the house belongs legally to her older brother, Louis, Isabel dreams of keeping the house for herself. Isabel is not a likable character, and Van der Wouden does not write her with the intention of making her palatable. Isabel is selfish, even bratty, and often cruel to those around her. She lives alone with the continued support from her brothers and her Uncle Karel, and she has no desire to ever leave or marry. She has a maid that comes every other day, who she accuses regularly of being a thief, and who she has never shown even a sliver of kindness. Isabel is obsessive, deeply flawed, and vividly human in a way that will make you love her as much as you dislike her. Van der Wouden achieves this by refusing to soften Isabel’s sharp edges, pulling the reader in through her contradictions and unsettling honesty.. The intimacy of her perspective makes Isabel impossible to look away. Beyond her flaws, she is caring and loyal, and Van der Wouden successfully makes her redeemable even through her idiosyncrasies. Her motivations are not malicious, even if she goes about things the wrong way. The war does not deeply affect Isabel or her family, and in this way, the book employs a powerful conceit of lulling the reader into a similar sense of indifference until much later in the novel when this willful ignorance is torn away from Isabel and the reader alike. https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/mendell-station-by-jb-hwang monthly 0.5 2025-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/189e41ba-91c3-40c1-ba1b-117584b41393/IMG_1702.png Reviews - Mendell Station by J.B Hwang - However, there is more than the grief of a loved one in this novel. The heart of it is Miriam’s struggle with her religion which, for so long, has taught her that non-believers like her best friend, Esther, go to hell. But unraveling this belief proves to be a larger undertaking than Miriam could have imagined, leaving her to wrestle with faith and hope as a whole. Mendell Station asks why bad things happen, why God allows suffering, and whether forgiveness is ever enough, all while rotating around the niche story of life as a mail carrier. “Trying to remove hell from my Christianity revealed what an essential pillar it was. Hell touched everything. Salvation from it was the root of our praise, forgiveness, grace, evangelism, and charity.” https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/nova-scotia-house-by-charlie-porter monthly 0.5 2025-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/55805962-3156-428d-bbf7-94ee557c9747/IMG_1558.PNG Reviews - Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House reads like a novel in verse, and in a way, that’s exactly what it is. Told as a kind of diary, it follows Johnny Grant’s life thirty years after the death of the only man he has ever loved, Jerry Field. Their time together was short, but the relationship lives on long past Jerry’s death from AIDS. Johnny still lives in Jerry’s flat—1, Nova Scotia House—all these years later, like a museum of the years they shared. It has become a personal refuge, a comfort in a time of unimaginable pain. The book opens, “Let me sort through who I am. Won’t take long.” And this is true: Nova Scotia House is a quick read, made quicker by its prosaic style. Porter strips away conventional punctuation and syntax, creating something closer to a tour of Johnny’s mind. It is fragmented, at times rambling, and it bends memory and the present around one city that, for Johnny, seems to exist only to remind him of Jerry. Johnny’s life without Jerry is tangibly lonely. The quiet of Johnny’s daily routine is at times devastating, but always beautifully depicted. https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/parallel-lines-by-edward-st-aubyn monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/691efac2-495f-4aad-abba-7f27a24812d3/IMG_1556.jpeg Reviews - Parallel Lines by Edward St. Aubyn The opening of Edward St. Aubyn’s Parallel Lines is not a plunge into darkness as it seems. The novel begins in the confines of a suicide observation room, then shifts to the looming knowledge of humanity’s inevitable extinction, but this is not a emotionally painful read. Parallel Lines is a study of the light that cuts through the shadows, the resilience that is born from struggle, and the compassion and humor to be found in even the darkest moments. As one of St. Aubyn’s many endearing characters explains it,“Compassion is just love in the face of suffering, and love does not run out with use—it grows stronger.” Sebastian, our first introduction to the brilliance of St. Aubyn’s prose, is a schizophrenic man whose mind has a way of blurring the lines between the real and imaginary. Sebastian is in the throes of psychosis at the start of this story. He has lost his job, his sense of normalcy, and most painfully, he has lost the girl he grew to love to a man he thought was his friend. In his deepest moments of distress, Sebastian also finds his biological mother who reveals he is actually a twin, separated at birth from a sister he never knew he had. Sebastian must reconcile what he knows with what could have been, had he been raised by the wonderful family that raised his sister, rather than the unfortunate upbringing he suffered. On new medication after his recent regression, Sebastian’s mental state is fragile already, and this new information threatens to pull him back into the darkness he has just barely breached the surface of. But under the care of Dr. Carr, his devoted psychoanalyst, Sebastian is able to slowly reign in the relentless nature of his fast-moving thoughts, even as the world seems to unravel around him. https://www.creationmag.org/blog-3-1/blog-post-title-one-lg44z monthly 0.5 2025-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b28724ec72c932e508893a/d717dab4-4304-46a7-abf4-8bb8af770d02/IMG_7562.jpeg Reviews - Just Emilia by Jennifer Oko - In Jennifer Oko’s Just Emilia, three women find themselves trapped in an elevator. A suicidal teenager, a middle-aged mother on the brink of divorce, and an elderly woman desperate to repair her relationship with her daughter after years of strain. When the elevator abruptly stalls, what begins as an inconvenience soon unravels into something far more significant. The three women, all with eerily similar names, begin to talk. First, only about where they were headed that day, then slowly shifting to the personal problems they’ve been carrying for years. And as the hours stretch, their coincidental encounter reveals itself as the life-altering experience it will soon become. Because Emilia, Em, and Millie are not strangers at all. They are all the same person, existing all at once for just these few hours. With nothing but time on their hands, long-buried truths rise to the surface, and each woman is forced to confront the events that brought them to this moment. One in particular has stitched itself into every aspect of the lives they live: the death of their mother, and the role they believe they played in the tragedy. But perhaps, it isn’t too late to change the future. Millie, late in her seventies, knows her chance has passed, her life already stained by her own regrets. And present-day Emilia is headed down the same path. But what about Em, still a teenager? They’ve come to her on the day she plans to kill herself, but what if they can change her mind? Just Emilia is a race against a fate that seems unrelenting, a fight against the stubborn roots of memory and guilt and the formative teenage years that threaten to solidify into something irreversible. Through Oko’s imaginatively simple conceit, these characters morph from strangers into women united by the same invisible weight. Their predicament, though very literal, is also metaphorical. Because, outside of that elevator, each of them is smothered beneath their own shortsightedness, stuck in loops of guilt, shame, and regret, unable to move past the weight of their own memories. What they truly need is someone to remind them what they’re still living for, but what they find is there is only one person capable of such a feat. 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