"Lessons in Drag" started as a performance by LaWhore Vagistan, the drag persona of academic Kareem Khubchandani. In it, she stages Khubchandani’s ethnographic research into accents, aunties, appropriation, and other topics connected... Read More

A sister tormented by guilt investigates her sibling’s disappearance in Eva Björg Ægisdóttir’s beguiling psychological thriller "Home Before Dark". At fourteen, Marsí corresponded with a pen pal, Bergur, using her elder sister... Read More

In Viktorie Hanišová’s lyrical novel "The Mushroom Gatherer", a woman uncovers painful childhood memories that lie in wait beneath the surface of her quiet life. In the seven years since she ran away from home and never looked back,... Read More

A bereaved composer keeps the memory of his late wife alive by unusual means in Anne Sénès’s mesmerizing novel "Double Room". In the late 1990s, Stan receives an offer to compose music for a theatrical production. He travels from... Read More

The moving memoir "You Might Feel a Little Pressure" honors the often minimized pain that can accompany miscarriages. Mary Adkins’s affecting memoir "You Might Feel a Little Pressure" is about enduring three miscarriages in nine... Read More

Nikki Nash’s frank, funny memoir "Collateral Stardust" is about growing up in an offbeat Los Angeles family. Nash was the sensitive oldest child in an unconventional family in the 1960s. Her father was a show-business trombonist and... Read More

The life and work of a comics pioneer is documented in Steve Weiner and Dan Mazur’s informative graphic biography "Will Eisner". Amid economic hardships, Eisner found relief in classic fiction and “pulp” magazines. He gained... Read More