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

An unintentional heroine comes into her supernatural own in the intriguing series-opening fantasy novel "The Others". In Evette Davis’s fantasy novel "The Others", a gifted woman navigates the hidden world of supernatural figures in... Read More

A fairy-tale ending may be possible for a traumatized man and his alluring neighbor in the hopeful romance novel "Losing My Breath". A veteran and his sheltered neighbor forge a connection that might be meant to last in "Losing My... Read More

Marie Carter’s cultural history text "Mortimer and the Witches" focuses on infamous fortune-tellers and the nineteenth-century New York cityscape they occupied. Mortimer Thomson wrote for a variety of newspapers under the pseudonym... Read More

A rare glimpse into the culture of the Middle Ages, Hana Videen’s whimsical book The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary dives into medieval manuscripts about animals both real and fantastical. Inflected by Christian beliefs and accounts... Read More

The Teachers’ RESET! is a heartfelt education guide that gathers hard-won tips for aspirational educators. Cia Rae Blake’s teachers’ resource guide The Teachers’ RESET! proposes strategies for connecting better with students.... Read More