The premise here is simple, yet its importance is impossible to overstate—men gazing at women creates a toxic environment, and male photographers have always posed their female subjects to please men, perpetuating a narrow expression... Read More

In her consistent ability to write a perfect line of poetry—and the river rose thirty-three feet above the highway and took what it wanted, and it wanted nearly everything, and left just the sidewalks—Gillian Wegener upsets the idea... Read More

No, we won’t find much comfort here, or words pretty for pretty’s sake. Sheila McMullin scores the flesh of her observations and sears them with ponderous, mostly unanswerable questions about pain and anger, consequences, finality.... Read More

It takes a sense of humor and a great deal of determination to raise a teenager. "Crazy-Stressed", by Dr. Michael J. Bradley, has an abundance of both. Part one of the book discusses the environmental stressors that exist for modern... Read More

Eggspect plenty of “fowl play” and a healthy dose of puns as another Wilcox and Griswold Mystery unfolds in Robin Newman’s "The Case of the Poached Egg", a Geronimo Stilton crime caper where two police mice follow the clues,... Read More

Oops! The color factory has malfunctioned, and turtle needs help as he rushes about attempting to put a riotous rainbow explosion back to rights, in Ashley Sorenson’s visually delectable "Color Blocked". Clean black and white lines of... Read More

These stories transcend culture to speak to wider human experiences. In Tales of Love and Despair: Men in Love in Revolutionary Iran, sociologist Mahnaz Kousha draws from extensive interviews to craft eight short stories that capture the... Read More

Ricard’s is a satisfying and familiar love story for anyone who has dealt with incredible loss. Russell Ricard’s The Truth about Goodbye is a poignant portrait of the nonlinear path of grief and recovery that the loss of a loved one... Read More