A Dominican girl with rosy cheeks and a wide imagination narrates this gentle, emigration-centered picture book. She watches ships from her seaside rooftop, and ducks when the shadows of dragons move overhead—even when her brother... Read More

In poems both elegiac and snarky, Randall Mann questions what makes a better life for a middle-aged gay man living through the historic days of Covid and a federal assault on LGBTQ+ rights. The poems, though focused through the lens of... Read More

Courttia Newland’s "A River Called Time" is an expansive speculative novel in which the British did not colonize Africa, but instead sought to learn from its cultures. In an alternate reality London, Markriss has been selected to live... Read More

While the rest of us mumble, look away, and generally avoid matters of consequence, poets seek no such cover. Indeed, Heather Altfeld and others of her inquisitive ilk lead the interrogation of a mad world. Winner of the Pablo Neruda... Read More

Upon learning of her adaptive scriptwriting accomplishments, we can fix the explanation for Evie Christie’s complex use of motivation, conflict, pathos, and trauma—humanity’s theater writ large in her work. That she does it with... Read More

People can’t see what isn’t culturally visible—that’s why queer history is so necessary, not just as a one-off, but as a perennial part of a culture’s story. In "No Way, They Were Gay?", Lee Wind revisits famous figures of US... Read More

As a wellness and travel journalist in Brooklyn, Annie Daly got tired of the version of health Americans are often sold: one centered on jumping head first into the latest diet and workout trends, taking prescription medications, and... Read More

Otherworldliness informs the eighteen stories of Julian Mortimer Smith’s "The World of Dew and Other Stories", which range from traditional science fiction to speculative fiction, and from flash fiction to long-form short stories,... Read More