For sailors seeking safe passage, the open ocean can be a scary place thanks to gales and hurricanes, British warships, Nazi submarines—and dragons and the Bermuda Triangle, if you believe in that sort of thing. Which is why, over the... Read More

The Art of the Clash / A Manifesto Against Mundane Design / Sophie von Oertzen Williamson / Gibbs Smith / Hardcover $45.00 (224pp) / 978-1-4236-6856-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / The sumptuous photography of Sophie von... Read More

Reviewer Meg Nola Interviews Shana Mavournin, Author of Lost in Perdition / Imagination plays a big role in writing fiction but when you break down the plot elements of a great novel, the entirety of the story always leaps beyond the sum... Read More

In today’s conversation, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Schingler coaxes Bar Fridman-Tell into revealing a fascinating source of anxiety, one that Bar shares with other principled writers who retell myths and folk tales while striving to... Read More

Mount Verity / Therese Bohman / Marlaine Delargy, translator / Other Press / Softcover $17.99 (224pp) / 978-1-63542-566-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel Mount Verity, a childhood... Read More

It takes a village to help an LGBTQ+ teenager come out—in addition to a robust bookshelf. Fortunately, those human and literary resources are becoming easier to find. Unfortunately, we still live in a world where condemnation and... Read More

Beatrice the Sixteenth / Radium Age Series / Irene Clyde / Lucy Sante, contributor / The MIT Press / Softcover $19.95 (344pp) / 978-0-262-05162-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Irene Clyde’s classic science fiction novel... Read More

Reasons to Rejoice / “L’Chaim!” Two hundred glasses raised in unison on a Saturday evening just before this issue went to press. The celebration had an air of the uncanny: it had to be relocated late in the planning process when... Read More