Two friends share their dreams and troubles in Chiara Lagani and Mara Cerri’s graphic novel adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s "My Brilliant Friend". Elena and Lila have known each other for decades, so Elena is not surprised when Lila... Read More

After their experiences with infertility, Elizabeth Horn, Maria Novotny, and Robin Silbergleid put together "Infertilities, A Curation", a collection of essays, art, and poetry on the subject. Prior to the COVID-19 shutdowns, the ART of... Read More

Black holes, new religions, and powerful stories ensnare orbiting beings with their intrigue and potentiality in Lavie Tidhar’s science fiction marvel "The Circumference of the World". In the loneliness of his youth, Eugene Hartley... Read More

A woman immortalized as a villain fights to tell her story in Deirdre Sullivan’s scintillating, lyrical novel "Savage Her Reply". Aife, one of three sisters “fostered” by the druid-warrior Bodhbh to solidify his power, grew up... Read More

"The Hunger Book" excavates thoughts on motherhood and addiction from its powerful memories “of hunger and longing in postwar Poland.” When Agata Izabela Brewer was three years old, communist forces declared martial law in Poland.... Read More

In Victoria McCombs’s high seas adventure novel "Savage Bred", betrayal and family sail hand-in-hand. As the third book of the Royal Rose Chronicles starts, Ontario, the pirate ship’s former first mate, has become captain; the... Read More

Acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville’s book "Across a Waking Land" covers his thousand-mile trek in search of hopeful signs from the distressed planet. When he was sixty-two years old and not in the best shape,... Read More

In Artem Mozgovoy’s heartbreaking historical novel "Spring in Siberia", a gay man comes of age in a post-Soviet land. In the same year that Mikhail Gorbachev launches the Perestroika and sets the Soviet Union on the path toward its own... Read More