Nursery Rhymes in Black / Latorial Faison / University of Alaska Press / Softcover $16.95 (84pp) / 978-1-64642-727-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Poetry must come from somewhere that is more than the sum of family, race,... Read More

An Interview with Ana Hebra Flaster, Author of Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town / Every American immigrant story is both unique and similar to the tens of millions of emigrations that have... Read More

“BLM lands cover vast, varied ecosystems—from high deserts to alpine meadows—and many of them remain relatively undeveloped. This makes them critical habitat for native plants and wildlife, including threatened species. Because... Read More

Queer Lens / A History of Photography / Paul Martineau, editorRyan Linkof, editor / Getty Publications / Hardcover $65.00 (342pp) / 978-1-60606-969-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Paul Martineau and Ryan Linkof’s evocative... Read More

Prepping for this interview with Be Steadwell got us thinking about Black sisterhood—that powerful, evocative, edgy, and exclusive club of women friends who see in each other the nerve and determination to overcome a world set on... Read More

The Tiny Things Are Heavier / Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo / Bloomsbury Publishing / Hardcover $28.99 (288pp) / 978-1-63973-410-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / An immigrant contends with alienation and love in Esther Ifesinachi... Read More

“In my culture, circles are very important, as well as the spiral. It represents connectedness, and I was always taught that we are connected to everything around us, and everything that came before us, and everything that will... Read More

Chocolate Chip City / Be Steadwell / Bywater Books / Softcover $22.95 (370pp) / 978-1-61294-315-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Be Steadwell’s novel Chocolate Chip City is about gentrification and protest. It is also a hymn... Read More