In Nebraska poet Terese Svoboda’s haunting novel "Dog on Fire", a small town reels in the wake of a tragedy. In a dusty town in contemporary times, an unnamed man dies under mysterious circumstances. In the months that follow his loss,... Read More

In Amy E. Feldman’s middle grade novel "Ezra Exposed", a boy jockeys for popularity via Instagram likes and finds that the internet is a bit more complex, and dangerous, than he ever imagined. Finally in the double digits, Ezra is the... Read More

Clark Strand’s mystical treatise "Waking Up to the Dark" encourages reconsidering and preserving the entity of night amid a world of incessant brightness. The book reflects upon life prior to gas lighting and Thomas Edison’s... Read More

Practical methods for managing long-term grief are named in the memoir Siren, on Repeat, the story of an ebullient friendship cut short by death. Patti Kimball writes about losing her best friend to heart disease when both girls were... Read More

Several of the stories in Maya Sonenberg’s collection "Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters" are fairy tales. Although populated with kings and princesses and dragons and giants, these fairy tales also contain a dash of the modern. There’s a... Read More

Filled with quiet reflections, "A Life Cycle" is a lovely poetry collection that explores the depths of grief and the struggle of healing. Nicole Asherah’s "A Life Cycle" is a stirring poetry collection about grief and healing. The... Read More

The self-help text "Become Better" proposes a road map to cultivating deep, far reaching emotional intelligence. Ann Polya’s self-help book "Become Better" suggests empowering methods for increasing emotional intelligence. Polya knows... Read More

In Mariana Dimópulos’s novel "Imminence", a woman fears the resurgence of her aimless, unhappy past. Though she’s been pressured to marry, have children, and behave in subservient, restrictive ways, the narrator doesn’t fit the... Read More