In Katja Brandis’s imaginative novel Carag’s Transformation, a shapeshifter leaves his family to live in the human world. Carag is a shapeshifter, or a woodwalker, who lives as a puma with his family outside of Jackson Hole. At... Read More

In the daring, imaginative short stories of Asja Bakić’s "Sweetlust", strong-minded women fight for survival and search for meaning in disturbing dystopian worlds. Set in the Balkans and mostly in the near future, these stories... 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

Kimberly G. Giarratano’s "Death of a Dancing Queen" is a gripping mystery novel in which a novice private investigator quests to solve her biggest case yet. In June of 1991, Starla, an exotic dancer, was stabbed to death; her diamond... Read More

A staged relationship blooms into love in Waverly Decker’s lighthearted LGBTQ+ romance novel "The 30-Day Engagement". Emory and Mari broke up eight years ago, so Emory is surprised when Mari, who works as an actress in Hollywood,... Read More

In the fairy tales and poems of Jane Yolen’s "The Scarlet Circus", there are curious permutations of haunting, mesmerizing love stories. Featuring previously published stories alongside new work and personal commentary, this... Read More

“Mass extinction and social collapse” are “a hard set of lemons to be making lemonade out of,” environmental activist Andrew Boyd admits. "I Want a Better Catastrophe" is his inventive, no-nonsense manual of constructive and... Read More

Daniel H. Turtel’s "The Family Morfawitz" is an original and striking multigenerational saga centered on a power-hungry family. Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, it follows the determined rise of a family that immigrates to post-war... Read More