'Frog,' by Mo Yan

'Beyond the Abortion Wars,' by Charles C. Camosy

'Changing the Questions,' by Margaret A. Farley

'Thirty-Three Good Men,' by John A. Weafer

'In the Country,' by Mia Alvar

Jon Hassler's sacramental imagination brightens a world grown gray with the banality of reality television and teenage paranormal romances.