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

Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More

The warm and informative self-help book "Carry On" brims with supportive words for queer and trans people, drawing on scholarship, stories, and advice from activist Nillin Lore and others. The book’s eight chapters cover leaving the... Read More

Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about memory, grief, home, and belonging. The hybrid essays combine poetry, stream-of-consciousness prose, scraps of dialogue, lists of... Read More

Israelite twins with healing gifts feature in Sharon Reiss Baker’s suspenseful historical novel "Last Days in Moav", about family duty and finding the courage to love. Decades after his ancestors’ exodus from Egypt, Netanel dies in a... Read More

In Jerome Charyn’s engaging novel "Silver Wolves", a teenager is thrust into a leadership role that clashes with his opportunities to build a better life. In the 1950s in New York, Jonah is held in a correctional facility for carrying... Read More

Art is a tool of the oppressor in Rachel Tremblay’s postapocalyptic novel Lavender Spike. After the revolution, Skylah, the nation’s leader, abolished religion. Seeing the need for connection, she turned sanctuaries into art... Read More

In Irene Clyde’s classic science fiction novel "Beatrice the Sixteenth", an explorer experiences a head injury and wakes in a different world. After a camel kick to the head, Mary is picked up by traveling merchants. Though she’s... Read More