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The novel, published by Little, Brown and Company, tells a multi-generational story which grounds itself in the myth of The Minotaur.

In 1919, Tejano legislator José Tomás Canales had gathered evidence of the Texas Rangers’ violence against Mexican workers and small landowners. Yet when the moment came to confront two leaders, he failed to call them to the stand. In These Bones Can Speak, Writing alum Adin Dobkin '20 investigates the forces behind that decision, as well as the political system that constrained Canales’s pursuit of accountability.

In her debut work of literary horror, Katie (HarperCollins, 2027), Associate Professor of Writing Dorothea Lasky follows a young New Yorker whose decision to become a surrogate mother draws her into a dangerous, possibly demonic world. Exploring the intersection of reproductive desire, financial insecurity, and manipulation, the novel turns an opportunity for a fresh start into mounting dread. Katie will be published on August 3, 2027.