Trifle, in poet speak, refers to what doesn’t make the cut, to all of the musings and ideas that are deemed unworthy—why bother? Trifle, in other words, offers a wonderful window into a poets head and what they care to keep top of... Read More

In Kate Gray Glass’s fantasy novel "The Keys of Persephone", a ghost without memories and a witch without powers form an alliance to stop a series of mysterious murders. Lane is a ghost tasked with capturing unruly denizens of the... Read More

Cecily Gilligan’s sweeping encyclopedia "Cures of Ireland" archives centuries of Irish folk medicine, herbalism, and healing charms. Drawing on firsthand interviews and archival research, this expansive book details hundreds of Irish... Read More

The innocence of boyhood is eclipsed by a fraught world in Vijay Khurana’s coming-of-age novel "The Passenger Seat". From the first page, Teddy and Adam are described as “boys, or men,” as if even the narrator is uncertain about... Read More

In Haylee Manda Reynolds’s poignant coming-of-age novel "Flirting with Glowsticks", a bisexual teenager struggles to find love in a period of transience. Chloe wants to belong in the places her parents move her to, including... Read More

Three youths unite in protest against an authoritarian government, afterward winding up on different paths, in the thoughtful, provocative graphic novel "You Must Take Part in Revolution". Andy, Maggie, and Olivia meet during political... Read More

In Ariel Dorfman’s luminous novel "Allegro", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is drawn into a perturbing medical mystery. In 1765, nine-year-old Mozart is thrilled to have his first symphony conducted in London by Maestro Johann Christian Bach.... Read More

Helpful, practical advice fills Janice V. Johnson Dowd’s empathetic book "Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery", an easy-to-read guide written to work alongside twelve-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous. The first three chapters... Read More