Courttia Newland’s "A River Called Time" is an expansive speculative novel in which the British did not colonize Africa, but instead sought to learn from its cultures. In an... Read More

There is a wide-eyed sweetness that lurks underneath the hostility of this novel, told in journal style. As with an actual knucklehead, with time and patience, the rewards well... Read More

"An Unkindness of Ghosts" launches the career of a brilliantly gifted and important new writer in science fiction. With "An Unkindness of Ghosts", Rivers Solomon inarguably... Read More

This is an inspirational memoir about a determined woman who faked it till she made it—and made it big. "Pressure Makes Diamonds" is Valerie Graves’s memoir, a story about... Read More

The prose captivates the senses and makes one yearn for the dazzling seascape it describes so eloquently. Fragile father-daughter and father-son bonds, pernicious sibling... Read More

Meno has written a book that honors the values of old men and exposes their prejudices, where the young transcend their apathy to claim a fractured future. "Marvel and a... Read More

Single-panel illustrations distill the essence of cat humor into beautifully rendered full-color pages. Building from an ever-growing base of fans for his Simon’s Cat video... Read More

This is an astounding book—in verbal pyrotechnics, but also in the fact that it’s a softcover re-issue. How could such a rich fictional brew have come and gone with so... Read More

Thank you, Al Capone. Forget the glittering architecture, the kaleidoscopic public gardens, and the urbane cultural attractions. Ever since Prohibition (at least), Chicago has... Read More

P is a bus driver in Miami. He’s got a wife, and two kids, and two big-screen TVs, and two cars, and an addiction. Smoke cigarettes, and you might get cancer. Shoot heroin,... Read More

This collection of twenty essays, articles, panel discussion transcripts, and interviews provides a fairly comprehensive examination of how the American record business has... Read More