Ira Wells’s searing political science text "On Book Banning" examines the origins and impact of literary censorship. The book builds upon the ideals of liberal democracy and identifies literary censorship as a threat to intellectual... Read More

Joined together, the grumbles of ill-appreciated and misunderstood knickknacks become cacophonous in Elisabeth Saake’s cheeky, delightful gift book "Tchotchkes and Their F*cked-Up Thoughts". Beware your baubles—they’re not content... Read More

The spirit of perseverance is given wings in Aaron Gwyn’s touching coming-of-age novella, "The Cannibal Owl". Levi was raised in the rough-and-tumble Arkansas territory in the first decades of the nineteenth century. His unexpected... Read More

The transformative events of a man’s life are gathered together in this amiable book that models decision-making at crossroad points. A memoir with self-help elements, Alexis Brunet’s book The Devil’s Crossroads straddles genre... Read More

A boy learns resilience following a life-altering move in the arresting historical novel "The New Frontier". In Wayne L. Wilson’s tense historical novel "The New Frontier", a Black adolescent confronts racism and other dangers when he... Read More

"No One Talks About This Stuff" is a ranging anthology of frank, humorous essays about facing infertility, pregnancy loss, and childlessness. The twenty-two contributors felt “disenfranchised grief” over pregnancies that did not lead... Read More

A much-anticipated addition to the mystical, queer-normative world of the Birdverse, R. B. Lemberg’s "Yoke of Stars" is a moving tale about the transformative power of stories. Stone Orphan, an apprentice assassin, awaits their first... Read More

Ivana Sajko’s "Love Novel" plunges into the difficulties that occur after a couple without means gives in to desire. The story is told from the points-of-view of an unnamed man and woman living in an unnamed city and country. The man,... Read More