A young woman debates taking her dream job, though it would mean separating from her girlfriend, in the graphic novel "Love and Gravity". Sunati and Austen are students in a future, spacefaring, Earth-based society. They’re also... Read More

Katherine Johnson Martinko’s insightful book "Childhood Unplugged" suggests means of transitioning families into screen-free lifestyles. Drawing on her own parenting style, advice from experts in the field, and the wisdom of other... Read More

"The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee" compiles the shorter works of the South Asian American author, showcasing Mukherjee’s exquisite flow of language and diverse range. Born to a Bengali Brahmin family, Mukherjee left... Read More

Rebecca Turkewitz limns the haunting nature of everyday occurrences in her rich literary collection "Here in the Night". These thirteen short stories survey the impact of ghost stories, disquieting relationships, marginalized identities,... Read More

"Lies about Black People" is an antiracist, activist text that dissects harmful racist myths. With a penetrating blend of history, anecdotes, interviews, and poetry, Omekongo Dibinga analyzes some common stereotypes about Black people,... Read More

The essays of "Black Hair in a White World" concern the struggles of Black women who sport natural hair in a colonized world. A commodity, a means of discrimination, a point of economic exploitation: Black women’s hair developed in... Read More

A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring, Grace and Elwood Fisher drive the same route to Death... Read More

Jean-Philippe Blondel’s delicate and delightful novel "Café Unfiltered" dips into the musings of several people who have gathered in a French café over the course of one day. In France, the COVID-19 lockdown has just been lifted. Le... Read More