A Canadian woman learns about her family’s past in the excellent graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories". Wong’s mother had a stroke in 2014, prompting a deeper... Read More

Hazel Jane Plante’s novel "Any Other City" puts a transgender punk idol’s story to the page. Tracy St. Cyr lives in a city that could be “any other city” that features... Read More

Karleen Pendleton Jiménez vivifies a 1984 Los Angeles summer in "The Street Belongs to Us", a nostalgic novel about friendship and family. Best friends Alex and Wolf thrive on... Read More

In Francesca Ekwuyasi’s "Butter Honey Pig Bread", a Nigerian woman’s homecoming stirs bad memories, old hurts, and a chance for new beginnings. Kehinde has not seen her... Read More

andrea bennett’s essays concern growing up, pregnancy, parenting, and mental health—topics that are addressed from a nonbinary perspective. Growing up in small town Canada... Read More

Life-changing moments lost, reimagined, and regained form the backbone of John Elizabeth Stintzi’s meditative, lyrical "Vanishing Monuments". Alani is a nonbinary,... Read More

In the form of an extended, illustrated letter to her young daughter, Teresa Wong shares the difficulties she experienced after her pregnancy in her graphic novel "Dear... Read More

Amber Dawn’s "Sodom Road Exit" combines supernatural erotic tension with the power of love, community, and acceptance, all set against former funhouse glory. The past meets... Read More

Julie Maroh examines relationships of every sort in the fictional graphic novel "Body Music". Across a variety of settings and characters, French author Maroh turns her eye to... Read More

This complex tale puts global crises and personal crises hand in hand, and questions if morality must adapt. Many dystopian novels feel distant, taking place in a time far from... Read More

Identity, specifically the danger of defining oneself according to the values and visions of others, is the thematic pulse of Smith’s memoir. To read Michael V. Smith’s "My... Read More

If you thought embroidery was just for hankies and little girls’ church shirts, you will quickly dispose of such nonsense when you peek into the colorful pages of Hoopla. Part... Read More