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

Natalie Lawrence’s work of cultural inquiry, "Enchanted Creatures", analyzes fabled and mythical beasts across human history, folklore, and literature, asking why monsters persist in human imaginations. Organized into sections on... Read More

Aiming to shake patriarchy’s hold over everyday speech and writing, "Breaking the Bias of English" is an inquisitive linguistic study. The insidious ways that language shapes perception are explored in Vivian R. Probst’s work of... Read More

In Elizabeth Lowham’s enthralling fantasy novel "Casters and Crowns", a reverse Sleeping Beauty curse forces a princess to confront the truth about magic in her kingdom. Aria will inherit her father’s crown—if she can survive the... Read More

Gioia Diliberto’s "Firebrands" visits the Roaring Twenties and beyond, revealing how four women’s efforts shaped the course of American history. When American women won the right to vote in 1920, some politicians assumed they would... Read More

Spanning literary criticism, social science, and the study of the fairy tale, Kimberly J. Lau’s "Specters of the Marvelous" foregrounds race in often whitewashed European fairy tales. Prior to cinema, fairy tales were collected,... Read More

A trans woman guards her secrets and fights dark powers in Margaret Killjoy’s novel "The Sapling Cage". Lorel wants to become a witch, learn to use magic, and travel the world. But she was assigned male at birth, and witches are always... Read More

In Ann McMan’s romance novel "The Black Bird of Chernobyl", a misanthropic mortician meets her match in her new bubbly community outreach colleague. Lilah runs her family’s mortuary and prefers to stay in the morgue over interacting... Read More