A powerful, uplifting story, "Books and Bricks" emphasizes the importance of both community and education. Having herself grown up in South Africa under the brutal racial inequalities of apartheid, author Sindiwe Magona shares the... Read More

The constant motion and evolution of a tiny drop through the fundamental water cycle is beautifully interpreted in Jorge Tetl Argueta’s poetically bilingual Agua, Agüita, or Water, Little Water. Illustrations from Felipe Ugalde... Read More

For inquiring minds everywhere, "Random Illustrated Facts" offers an exceptional variety of quirky trivia on topics ranging from history and natural science to outer space and entomology. Artist, author, and daily sketchbook keeper Mike... Read More

Silverberg’s science fiction stands head and shoulders above other works in the genre. The short stories in Robert Silverberg’s "First-Person Singularities" are inventive, sublime, and endlessly entertaining. All eighteen pieces are... Read More

Claire’s self-image underscores the notion that anyone could be a violent psychopath. "My Pet Serial Killer", by Michael J. Seidlinger, is an unsettling and deeply graphic thriller focusing on the overlap between sex and violence.... Read More

At the turn of the twentieth century, few Americans were more famous than Buffalo Bill Cody, and his Wild West shows played to huge crowds. But while those shows were popular, they also presented a sanitized and highly mythologized... Read More

Shape-shifters, fairy tales, wicked enchantments, and—oh yeah—asthma inhalers. Bryar Rose deals with supernatural and totally normal teenage stresses in Wolves And Roses: Fairy Tales of the Magicorum. Packed with urban fantasy... Read More