In the superb autobiographical essays of "Otherwise", Julie Marie Wade illuminates sexual orientation and body image issues. Nine intricate pieces reflect on risk, bodily autonomy, gender roles, and poetry versus prose. A series of... Read More

"No Lessons Learned" is a scathing history book that draws parallels between the US’s military actions in Vietnam and Iraq. Drawing on military history to support its claims, literature professor Alfredo Bonadeo’s posthumously... Read More

A memoir about transgender womanhood and the messy art of self-construction, McKenzie Wark’s "Love and Money, Sex and Death" models how identity muddies the waters of who you are, what you want to be like, and who you want to be with.... Read More

In Juan Cárdenas’s novel "The Devil of the Provinces", a man returns to his rural hometown, encountering questions with no ready answers. After losing his job abroad, a biologist has no choice but to return to Colombia and accept a... Read More

Katherine Johnson Martinko’s insightful book "Childhood Unplugged" suggests means of transitioning families into screen-free lifestyles. Drawing on her own parenting style, advice from experts in the field, and the wisdom of other... Read More

Age, class, and lies affect a space-borne society in the science fiction graphic novel "Arca". Effie will turn eighteen soon, at which point she’ll stop serving the “citizens”—the rich aristocracy of a large spaceship called... Read More

Syrian refugees fight to survive in Haya Saleh’s moving novel "Wild Poppies", about how brotherhood endures wartime. Omar is fifteen. His father was martyred in a bombing. Omar and his remaining family shelter at his aunt’s home.... Read More

The tale of the legendary rock band Queen is given pictorial treatment in the handsome graphic novel "Queen in Comics". Queen maintained a perennial presence on the pop charts in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, but their path to... Read More