We Can Save Us All / Adam Nemett / The Unnamed Press / Softcover $18.99 (390pp) / 978-1-944700-76-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Adam Nemett’s We Can Save Us All is a humorous yet sobering pre-apocalyptic scenario.... Read More

In Every Wave / Charles QuimperGuil Lefebvre, translator / Baraka Books/QC Fiction / Softcover $16.95 (80pp) / 978-1-77186-155-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Piercing and compact, Charles Quimper’s novella In Every... Read More

Ghosts in the Schoolyard / Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side / Eve L. Ewing / University of Chicago Press / Hardcover $22.50 (240pp) / 978-0-226-52602-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Ghosts in the... Read More

The Lightning Jar / Christian Felt / University of Iowa Press / Softcover $16.00 (142pp) / 978-1-60938-600-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Christian Felt’s eerie and wondrous The Lightning Jar, an outwardly... Read More

Memoirs can be some of the most compelling reading of all, and Jarrell’s I’m the One Who Got Away delivers in full as a beautifully written, captivating story. Foreword’s Ilyssa Wesche caught up with her for a conversation about... Read More

During the year that my husband and I spent planning a lengthy French sojourn, I envisioned writing a book about the forces that converge to force baby boomers out of traditional work arrangements sooner than expected—something that... Read More

African Americans have allies of all races in the continuing fight for racial equality in the United States. It doesn’t matter what color you are, anybody can speak out against injustice. But “we’re in this together” can only go... Read More

It’s one of the paradoxes of contemporary American sexuality: nobody seems to want to talk about porn; everybody seems to be watching it. Sharp and hilarious feminist writer Lynsey G. took note of this gulf between consumption and... Read More