Michael Paramo’s personalized social science study "Ending the Pursuit" is an intersectional analysis of the history and culture of asexual, aromantic, and agender identities. Interweaving historical references, scientific studies,... Read More

In Vigdis Hjorth’s powerful novel "If Only", a playwright develops an obsession with an older professor that spirals into an all-consuming love affair. At thirty years old, Ida is married with two children. She has a successful career... Read More

Two young people wonder whether to board the last shuttles from their doomed planet in the graphic novel "Space Junk". In a dystopian universe where worlds are abandoned after being stripped of resources, Faith and Hoshi await their turn... Read More

Young lovers run up against the limits of their abilities to control their own destinies in Johannes Anyuru’s melancholy novel "Ixelles". Ruth should know a lie when she hears one: she lies for a living, helping brands and politicians... Read More

In Meg Ripley’s subversive, thrilling novel "Necrology", a wise girl raised on the wonders of the wilds is forced to contend with those who would see her kind extinguished. In an alternate version of America, magic pulses through the... Read More

A Canadian woman learns about her family’s past in the excellent graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories". Wong’s mother had a stroke in 2014, prompting a deeper investigation into the family history. Through conversations,... Read More

Tragedy strikes a dysfunctional Turkish German family in Fatma Aydemir’s searing novel "Djinns". Hüseyin worked hard his entire life so he could bring his family back to his homeland in style. He dies only a week after accomplishing... Read More

While some bars in Chicago have served Jeppson’s Malört for nearly a century, in the past two decades, the bitter, wormwood-derived botanical spirit found new life as both a niche favorite and an ironic countercultural drink. That... Read More