Poetry is a high wire act, performance art—for some writers. J. K. Kennedy finds it to be her path to clarity, a clearing of destructive thought clutter, a crystallization of love, limitlessness, and the beauty of human existence.... Read More

Cats & Us is a charming collection of mini-essays highlighting human-pet interactions over time and across cultural contexts. Its several-page spreads consider how felines relate to certain subgroups of people, including children,... Read More

A former gang member seeks a new start in the surreal science fiction graphic novel "Faceless and the Family". On the Hand Planet, a former gang member, Faceless, has been in hiding for ten years, ever since he decided to quit being a... Read More

With memoir entries for transgender youths by transgender people, "Becoming Who We Are" is a comics anthology about the process of becoming yourself as a transgender person. It includes essential representation along with a... Read More

A grandmother and her granddaughter are entombed in a house whose walls hunger for murderous vengeance in Layla Martínez’s horror novel "Woodworm". The women are trapped in their small town due to the curse of the elder’s father.... Read More

A girl seeks to create lasting peace between warring groups in the graphic novel Matilde’s Quest. After an epic battle in the Golden City of Eyes, Boldon, Spike, and Matilde, who has a mechanical arm, secure passage to Matilde’s... Read More

K-Ming Chang’s "Cecilia" is a surreal novella about the intense, intoxicating memories that surface when an outcast reencounters her childhood best friend. In childhood, Seven’s friendship with Cecilia was passionate to the point of... Read More

Herman Melville—mystic, orca oracle, and madness miner—left treasures of material for poets in Moby-Dick, and Steve Mentz found his muse in the idea of an Ahab-less Pequod—a multiracial, queer, and cruisier ship on a bountifully... Read More