“One of the subjects, Amanda, a blind autistic academic from Australia, initially approached me for a doctoral thesis she was writing about a neurodivergent poet. I found her story and abilities—she can, for example, picture her... Read More

The King and Nothing / Olivier Tallec / Milky Way Picture Books / Hardcover $21.99 (40pp) / 978-1-990252-38-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A king with everything goes in search of nothing in this picture book with a... Read More

“The regime Kim built is so repressive that, in the modern world, it might warrant a category of its own—below the average dictatorship.’’ —Fyodor Tertitskiy The word tyranny (tyrannos) comes down to us from ancient Greece in... Read More

Pencil / Hye-Eun Kim / TOON Books / Hardcover $18.99 (48pp) / 978-1-66266-553-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / This wordless picture book speaks volumes about conservation and the transformative power of art.... Read More

An Interview with Kazu Haga, Author of Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse / At two of the darkest moments of the past century, you may recall that Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. practiced a... Read More

Does the thought of writing a soul-baring memoir cause you a flood of anxiety? Elissa Altman gets it, but as a teacher of memoir writing, she wants you to embrace the desire to write your story, if indeed that is your dream. “The... Read More

33 Place Brugmann / Alice Austen / Grove Press / Hardcover $28.00 (368pp) / 978-0-8021-6408-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Alice Austen’s engrossing historical novel 33 Place Brugmann, World War II disrupts a... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Roohi Choudhry, Author of Outside Women / What does kinship and solidarity look like for women on society’s margins? In her novel Outside Women, Roohi Choudhry explores the hardships misogyny and... Read More