Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the least-populated region in the lower 48. Walking a riverbank, you are more likely to meet a black bear, wolf, bobcat, or whitetail deer than... Read More

Immersed in an endemic sense of grief, Cara Stoddard’s coming-of-age memoir "Spirography" is about cancer’s enduring presence in her life. At seven years old, Stoddard was... Read More

Keith Gilyard’s sprawling memoir "The Promise of Language" makes a passionate case for the power of language, particularly Black language, to transform lives and enliven art... Read More

Spanning literary criticism, social science, and the study of the fairy tale, Kimberly J. Lau’s "Specters of the Marvelous" foregrounds race in often whitewashed European... Read More

After their experiences with infertility, Elizabeth Horn, Maria Novotny, and Robin Silbergleid put together "Infertilities, A Curation", a collection of essays, art, and poetry... Read More

Sound. Alise Alousi sounds her words to arrive as cadence, as music, as magic. Sounds easy, until you realize how large her collection of eye teeth would be if she traded her... Read More

Maureen Dunphy’s memoir-in-essays, "Divining", conveys a lifelong love of trees and the feelings of sanctuary that they provide. Throughout Dunphy’s lifetime, trees have... Read More

Jax lives in Detroit. He expects his week-long visit to his grandparents in coastal Virginia to take the shape of his city summers—going to the movies, visiting the zoo, and... Read More

"Our Blessed Rebel Queen" is a collection of academic essays on both Carrie Fisher and Leia Organa, the intersections and impact of the two women, and Fisher’s enmeshed, often... Read More

"That They Lived" pays tribute to Black American icons through black-and-white photographs that recreate their images. It is an elegant collaboration between photographer Cristi... Read More

Guy Stern’s entrancing memoir "Invisible Ink" draws on a cornucopia of experiences from his rich and varied life. Beginning with Stern’s childhood and time as a military... Read More

In her memoir "Black Indian", Shonda Buchanan researches four generations of her family to uncover the brutalities that its women suffered from their husbands, boyfriends, and... Read More