The essays of Louise Gray’s "Avocado Anxiety" investigate the nature of food consumption in a global economy. Sparked by a deep need to understand where her family’s food was coming from and how it was processed, Gray began to... Read More

"Insubordinate" is an optimistic self-help book for modern women who want to bridge the gap between literary examples of women’s power and the needs of their own working lives. Drawing on global leadership knowledge, Jocelyn Davis’s... Read More

In Chelsea Wakelyn’s discerning novel "What Remains of Elsie Jane", a widow explores single motherhood—and the possibility of interdimensional travel. After her husband Sam’s sudden passing, Elsie becomes robotic, rotating through... Read More

In Emma Batchelor’s semiautobiographical novel "Now That I See You", a thirty-year-old woman processes her reactions after her partner tells her they are transgender. When her partner, Jess, reveals that they are femme, the narrator is... Read More

In Zein El-Amine’s short story collection "Is This How You Eat a Watermelon?", the Lebanese civil war leads to disrupted lives and ghost sightings. Herein, war is more complicated than mere acts of violence. Enemy drones hover above... Read More

The haunting stories collected in A. J. Bermudez’s "Stories No One Hopes Are About Them" comment on qualities of the Anthropocene and center apathy’s hand in violence. Volleying between the beauty of final moments and the thrill of... Read More

Set in California, Jenn Scott’s novel "All the Tiny Beauties" is a multigenerational story of love and survival. Since he was young, Webb struggled, time and again, to fill the imposed social rituals of “manliness.” Scared to be... Read More

In the coming-of-age novel "Pretend Plumber", an LGBTQ+ girl learns to navigate her Los Angeles life with authenticity. In Stephanie Barbé Hammer’s new adult novel "Pretend Plumber", a thirteen-year-old questions how she fits into her... Read More