The Harmattan Winds / Sylvain TrudelDonald Winkler, translator / Archipelago Books / Softcover $19.00 (172pp) / 978-1-962770-22-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Sylvian Trudel’s novel The Harmattan Winds is an unusual... Read More

Reviewer Sarah White Interviews Jessica Zucker, Author of Normalize It: Upending the Silence, Stigma, and Shame That Shape Women’s Lives / Clinical psychologist and author Dr. Jessica Zucker has a dream: That one day all of us will... Read More

“It was only when I realized the great joy of Mrs. Nobody and decided to write a wild, playful adventure about the most-fun friend that the narrative really came to life.’’ —Y.S. Lee What do dogs and cats and little boys and... Read More

The Boy Who Lost His Spark / Maggie O’FarrellDaniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, illustrator / Walker Books US / Softcover $9.99 (112pp) / 978-1-5362-4042-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Moving to a cottage in the... Read More

“One of the subjects, Amanda, a blind autistic academic from Australia, initially approached me for a doctoral thesis she was writing about a neurodivergent poet. I found her story and abilities—she can, for example, picture her... Read More

The King and Nothing / Olivier Tallec / Milky Way Picture Books / Hardcover $21.99 (40pp) / 978-1-990252-38-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A king with everything goes in search of nothing in this picture book with a... Read More

“The regime Kim built is so repressive that, in the modern world, it might warrant a category of its own—below the average dictatorship.’’ —Fyodor Tertitskiy The word tyranny (tyrannos) comes down to us from ancient Greece in... Read More