Set in Edwardian England, Stephanie Cowell’s novel "The Boy in the Rain" concerns the passionate romance between a painter and a divorced writer. After a traumatic exchange with his uncle, nineteen-year-old Robbie, who is failing in... Read More

In Pirkko Saisio’s autobiographical novel "The Red Book of Farewells", a Finnish woman navigates being a lesbian in a time when homosexuality was outlawed and when the currents of communism pervaded every aspect of life. Death opens... Read More

In Cameron Alam’s lyrical historical novel "Anangokaa", orphaned Scottish siblings struggle to survive in a harsh Canadian climate. In 1804, the MacCallum family joins other Scottish people in emigrating to the planned Baldoon... Read More

"A Darker Wilderness" is a remarkable collection of essays regarding generational experiences of the natural world. These ten essays expand the boundaries of nature writing with emotive narratives from brown, Black, and queer... Read More

Father’s Day is an emotive novel in which local deaths forever change a small town and its residents. In Gary Kyriazi’s redemptive novel Father’s Day, a series of traumatic events reshape a small California town. On Father’s Day... Read More

James D. Richardson’s biography "The Abolitionist’s Journal" concerns the extraordinary life of George Richardson, an antislavery advocate and traveling Methodist preacher. George Richardson kept a 300-page journal that became... Read More

Edited by Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons, the essays collected in "The Global History of Black Girlhood" are groundbreaking, delivering history lessons with present-day implications. Drawing insights from research into the... Read More

In "From Gay to Z", a compendium of queer culture more akin to a kiki than an encyclopedia, Justin Elizabeth Sayre serves up a blend of earnest information and loving snark. A humorist rather than a historian or social scientist, Sayre... Read More