Set in Karachi, the fourteen short stories of Farah Ali’s stunning and soulful "People Want to Live" are tales of bumpy lives steeped in poverty, bleakness, violence, and... Read More

Drawing on personal experiences and cultural analysis, Jaswinder Bolina’s essay collection "Of Color" is an important examination of race in the US. The son of Sikh Punjabi... Read More

Emerson Whitney’s genre-bending memoir "Heaven" is about gender, family, and memory. It is cerebral in examining social labels and expectations, as well as how selves are... Read More