What to make of this daily plate?: divorced mother of two sons (one white, one Black). This life lot?: estranged from her own mother. This dealt hand?: caring for a partner through a mental health crisis. Even as her work takes full... Read More

You can lead a queer Asian American to the southern US (including Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Florida), but it takes an epiphany-laced collection of poems to understand why Siew Hii stayed. One, an extraordinary ability to... Read More

Poets are cheek turners, reliably willing to face grief and pain at untenable levels and then ask for more. Poets are coat turners, inexplicably willing to renounce and swerve just as the path seems laid. In her debut collection, Elise... Read More

A marginalized woman is sent into a black hole for the good of her community in Balsam Karam’s extraordinary speculative novel "Event Horizon". Milde was eight years old when her tropical nation declared innumerable women and children... Read More

A girl explores a strange world of magic in K. B. Spangler and Alexandra Presser’s fantastical graphic novel "SideQuested". Charlie trains to be a librarian. Her plans are upset when she learns that her caretakers of eighteen years are... Read More

In Alex Potts’s wry graphic novel "Was That Normal?", a man vacillates between social connections and solitude. In his forties, Philip rents a room, works from home, and is desperate to enjoy some social interaction. He’s awkward in... Read More

In Hannes Barnard’s dynamic coming-of-age novel "Nebulous: The Last Hurrah", teenagers seek refuge from an ominous storm cloud. Best friends Xandr and Rufus sneak out of their South African homes for a last chance at losing their... Read More

In Ross Montgomery’s touching novel "Small Wonder", brothers hide from danger and uncover family secrets. Tick and Leaf lead an idyllic life in their late grandfather’s cabin—until the malevolent Drene arrive on Ellia’s shores to... Read More