Incompetence by Will Thorpe follows Wes Haas, a university literature professor driving east through the Pacific Northwest on a personal pilgrimage to Idaho. Haas is currently dealing with a major professional crisis after refusing to alter his graduate syllabus according to arbitrary institutional metrics, a...

In Will Thorpe's Up In Mali, Daniel, an American professor of African history, travels into northern Mali as jihadists take control of the country's historic towns. He promised to try to find rare manuscripts for Foraes-Muriat, a collector from London, hoping that would get...