Diane Glancy’s "Island of the Innocent" explores the “Book of Job with poems and poetic prose until the fissures” appear. Other times and places bleed into the story, including the United States’ Indian eradication efforts in the... Read More

Transcendent and surreal, A. Degen’s "The Marchenoir Library" mixes superheroes and humor. Taking inspiration from the comic book tradition of pulpy, attention-grabbing graphics, this is a tale told as a collection of covers to stories... Read More

"The Hardhat Riot" moves, moment by tense moment, through May 8, 1970, a day known as Bloody Friday, which led to the fracturing of the Democratic Party and an opportunity for Richard Nixon. Starting with a glimpse of the fateful hour... Read More

Ed Rosenthal’s gripping "Salvation Canyon" is about a desert hike gone wrong and a transformative, face-to-face confrontation with death. Rosenthal, a sixty-four-year-old real estate broker and poet, was no newbie to solitary desert... Read More

In "Original Politics", Glenn Aparicio Parry argues that Native American history and culture are imperative forces within America’s past and present. From Parry’s perspective, Native American politics represent a sacred America, or a... Read More

Awakening to the sad image of herself and her partner sleeping on opposite sides of the mattress, Lori Soderlind mused on discontent and change—her own, and that of the US. "The Change" is her probing memoir about discovering what had... Read More

In a purgatorial village that’s dwindled to nine members—all of whom were traumatized in a mountainous “city of suffering”—change is brewing. Shawn Smucker’s "These Nameless Things" is an enigmatic allegory on post-traumatic... Read More

In Sten Nadolny’s masterful "The Joy of Sorcery", magic, love, and family illuminate a tragic time in world history. Pahroc is the sorcerer son of a Paiute Indian man and a Berliner woman. In a series of letters to his young... Read More