Sarah Cole’s fascinating literary investigation "Inventing Tomorrow" shows how H. G. Wells’s work is relevant and meaningful today. Beginning by juxtaposing Virginia Woolf’s heady novels with H. G. Wells’s brash journalistic... Read More

Matt Tompkins’s "Odsburg" is a unique kind of story—almost too novel to be considered a novel at all. Within it, self-taught researcher Wallace Jenkins-Ross sets out to document the town of Odsburg. The data he accumulates is... Read More

Jelena Subotić’s "Yellow Star, Red Star" examines postwar views of the Holocaust in Eastern Bloc countries. In 1941, a nineteen-year-old Jewish nurse entered the Semlin labor camp of her own free will, eager to care for others but... Read More

In fifteen stories that mine different forms of torment, Sadie Hoagland gathers lost innocence, altered lives, and harsh memories—sometimes with elegiac, bald realism, and sometimes with eerie hyperbole and gruesome images.... Read More

Two men bond over sex, violence, and shared emotional and psychological trauma in Orlando Ortega-Medina’s neo noir "The Death of Baseball", about identity, sexuality, and nihilism in 1980s Los Angeles. The novel is a study of... Read More

In Dan Kainen and Ella Morton’s "Outback", Photicular illustrations pair with text, resulting in accessible infographics that amaze, educate, and delight. The definition of the Outback itself is rich and complex. With no determined... Read More

Dave Edlund’s thrilling Peter Savage series continues with "Lethal Savage", which kick-starts a drastic solution to overpopulation. On an Oregon reservation, the young men are struck by an unknown illness that leaves them sterile.... Read More

Written for Gen X and Gen Y folks who don’t mind a bit of colorful language, Melissa Browne’s Unf⁎ck Your Finances is a comprehensive and user-friendly guidebook to financial well-being. Based on a mixture of hard-won experience... Read More