Herman Melville—mystic, orca oracle, and madness miner—left treasures of material for poets in Moby-Dick, and Steve Mentz found his muse in the idea of an Ahab-less Pequod—a multiracial, queer, and cruisier ship on a bountifully... Read More
In Barbara Ridley’s gripping novel "Unswerving", a woman survives a car accident and contends with emotional trauma, harrowing rehabilitation, and a mystery surrounding the fate of her girlfriend. Tave, once a top athlete at her... Read More
Gold leaf and painterly illustrations with saturated colors are used to follow the life of Rumi, the renowned poet and scholar born in Iran in 1207. Herein, Rumi is imagined as a boy who delights in feeding the birds; a young adult... Read More
A timely reissue of Charlotte Haldane’s brilliant 1926 dystopian novel, Man’s World is set in a future where individual desires are sacrificed for communal good, women’s roles are prescribed, and genetic makeup is determined by... Read More
Denise Dorrance’s graphic memoir "Polar Vortex" is about returning home to tend to her ailing, forgetful mother. When her ninety-one-year-old mother Hilda falls at home, Dorrance races from England to Iowa to help. Her mother exhibits... Read More
A young victim of terrorism watches over those she left behind in Linda N. Masi’s novel "Fine Dreams". Kubra loved running, the color pink, and studying to become an educator like her mother. After she becomes collateral damage in a... Read More
Galya Gerstman’s novel "Daughters of Jerusalem" follows three generations of Jewish women in early twentieth-century Palestine. In 1900 in Serbia, Lili and her husband, Joseph, struggle to have a child; Lili lost seventeen babies soon... Read More
"Nothing Sacred" is an anthology of short stories dedicated to the audacious and profane. This incendiary, daring book is filled with a diverse roster of stories that probe the boundaries of social and political conventions. In Alex... Read More