“I think black women move through the world often feeling powerfully othered. In the west, the vast majority of our media … does not centre our experience. We are sidecharacters and footnotes in history, if we are to be found at all.... Read More

Transgenesis / Ava Nathaniel Winter / Milkweed Editions / Softcover $16.00 (96pp) / 978-1-63955-004-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The good poet’s body slowly leaves one sex for another and she wonders what else, if... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Larry Ruttman, Author of Intimate Conversations: Face-to-Face with Matchless Musicians / “An adventurous odyssey to unearth the depths of great musicians’ psyches and to discover the... Read More

“The same story can be told many times, in many ways, by different people across generations. A story can migrate and move around, acquiring new endings and meanings. A story can be told in many languages, a story can be recast in song... Read More

A Misfortune of Lake Monsters / Nicole M. Wolverton / CamCat Books / Hardcover $19.99 (304pp) / 978-0-7443-0958-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Nicole M. Wolverton’s hair-raising thriller A Misfortune of Lake... Read More

Shaken and Stirred / Feeling cursed to live in interesting times, I spent early summer sympathizing with Cassandra, who witnessed avoidable disasters amid her piles of unheeded warnings. Were we here again? It all felt too familiar. This... Read More

“To write a story isolated in the past, without attachments to our own time (if such a thing is possible) does not interest me. I believe that a book is a responsible object brought into being by a writer, ie, it occupies a place among... Read More

Cypria / A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean / Alex Christofi / Bloomsbury Continuum / Hardcover $30.00 (332pp) / 978-1-399-40188-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The island of Cyprus is centered in Alex... Read More