The public’s adamant adherence to their snap decisions impedes the justice process in the harrowing novel "An American Tragedy", about a teacher accused of sexual abuse. A preschool scandal leads to a clash between outrage and justice... Read More
The threat of climate change looms over the short stories of Ashley Shelby’s "Honeymoons in Temporary Locations", resulting in a zesty mix of humor, speculative science fiction, and melancholia. Set in a future wracked by environmental... Read More
A literary oxygen mask and a paean to health care workers, psychiatrist David Kopacz’s understanding self-help book illustrates how relatable and treatable issues like burnout are. Kopacz, having himself experienced burnout, notes that... Read More
Maria Sweeney documents her life with a rare disability in her graphic memoir "Brittle Joints". From childhood onward, Sweeney lived with pain and uncertainty related to her diagnosis with Bruck syndrome, a progressive condition that... Read More
Monika Kim’s bold, brutal novel "The Eyes Are the Best Part" sears with feminine rage and unflinching body horror. Ji-won is not the perfect first-generation American daughter. She is friendless, average in academics, and lacks the... Read More
Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir "Another North" cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree winter temperatures, molded and... Read More
The rhyming lines and twilight-toned watercolors of this perfect bedtime story about the magic of nighttime will lull any child to sleep. When the climbing jasmine vine outside her window calls to her, Jasmine rises from her sleep and... Read More
In the charming graphic novel Time Buddies, a spin-off from the Cat Ninja series, a schoolboy and a talking owl traverse millennia. On a museum field trip, Bentley is fascinated by hieroglyphics and sees one image that resembles him. In... Read More