Amara Moira wrestles with sex work and identity in her piercing essay collection So What If I’m a Puta. This public diary documents Moira’s decision to use sex work to embrace her identity as a travesti, a distinct cultural... Read More

In Elisabeth Rhoads’s brooding psychological thriller "Haggard House", a sheltered religious boy meets his free-spirited match, unlocking a door to the past where trauma and truth lie hidden. It is 1859 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,... Read More

In reflective prose, Tariq Mehmood’s kaleidoscopic novel "Sing to the Western Wind" unravels the life of man driven to the brink by political and religious violence. Saleem is at the end of his life. He has bombs strapped to his chest... Read More

When she’s raising a young child, a mother’s day often finds her of two minds: one, not so different from other women; the other, sharing the eyes, ears, and minute-by-minute miracles that come with her flesh and blood experiencing... Read More

Poetry must come from somewhere that is more than the sum of family, race, education, history, culture, gender, pain, and passion. Every poet, of course, draws on as much, but why is it that so many Black women poets’ where-from place... Read More

A woman discovers her new fiancé and his family are not what they seem in Audrey Wilson’s Midwestern thriller "The Ever End". Following her mother’s death, Margo represses her grief with an engagement to Sam, her boyfriend of six... Read More

Michel Leboeuf’s "Lost Songs of Nature" is a thought-provoking study of “acoustic ecology,” or the natural and human-made sounds of the world, that carries warnings about contemporary threats to biodiversity. Organized into five... Read More

Arie Kaplan’s bright, jargon-free volume of global folklore blends anthropology, pop culture, and a pinch of irreverence. Asserting that superstition is a universal language, the book explores themes including birth, death, and romance... Read More