Characters find unconventional ways to cope (or to avoid coping) in David Clerson’s short story collection "To See Out the Night". In the collection: an unemployed nightwatchman convinces himself he is turning into an ape. A lonely... Read More
The work of the famed twentieth-century Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is given an additional, exciting visual dimension by Tobias Tak in the graphic adaptation "Canciones Federico Garcia Lorca". Garcia Lorca’s poems are known for... Read More
Gothic and feminist, J. S. Breukelaar’s novel "The Bridge" is moving in addressing science, sisterhood, and storytelling. Meera is a Made: a genetically engineered person born into a cult ruled by the Father, who believed that women... Read More
Janis Joplin’s brief, tragic, and spectacular career is recounted in the graphic biography "Love Me Please!" Beginning with her childhood in Port Arthur, Texas, the book follows Joplin through the difficult and erratic process of... Read More
"Fair" is a contemplative novel about trauma and connection among society’s most overlooked people. Milton’s epic Paradise Lost provides comfort and courage to a homeless man in Ed Seaward’s pensive novel "Fair". Eyan is homeless.... Read More
On a placid cruise along the Norwegian coast to gather material for a magazine feature on the Northern Lights, travel writer Chaney Kwak’s boredom turned into terror. The Viking Sky sailed into treacherous waters, assaulted by a... Read More
In Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel "Winter in Sokcho", a young woman has a fateful encounter with a man who is as lost as she is. Sokcho, a Korean beach resort, has little to offer tourists during the off season. But one tourist comes... Read More
"That They Lived" pays tribute to Black American icons through black-and-white photographs that recreate their images. It is an elegant collaboration between photographer Cristi Smith-Jones and journalist Rochelle Riley, designed to... Read More