A boy in a village plagued by Cossack soldiers battles a curse to help his family and friends in the excellent graphic novel "Mendel the Mess-Up". Mendel, who is approaching his bar mitzvah, lives in a remote Jewish village, Lintvint,... Read More

In James Reich’s science fiction novel "Skinship", a generation ship containing the last human beings endures a ponderous journey whilst combating a mutiny. Applewhite is the first navigator of The Charcot, a living ship carrying the... Read More

Made up of journal entries written between 2019 and 2023, "Telling the Bees" is Dominic Pettman’s insightful, ironic, and brooding meditation on COVID-19, political unrest, technology, and urban isolation. Writing from his New York... Read More

In his memoir "Portrait in Red", L. John Harris pursues multiple avenues (and delightful detours) in an attempt to solve an art mystery in Paris. Harris, who attended art school at Berkeley in the 1960s, arrived in Paris on magazine... Read More

In Poupeh Missaghi’s literary novella "Sound Museum", an enthusiastic curator celebrates the aural elements of torture. Before an exclusive tour of her museum, an Iranian curator delivers an opening speech to the invited foreign... Read More

The moon is reimagined as a superhero that watches over the world while children sleep in this charming bedtime story. A pod of whales stranded during low tide and an approaching asteroid are no match for Supermoon, who faithfully... Read More

For queer Latinx Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, raised in El Paso by Mexican immigrants, piecing together a suitable cloak of masculinity is as much about survival as it is identity. His brother’s detainment and deportation serves as a... Read More

Justice is out of the purview of poetry, unfortunately. Otherwise, the ancestors of the ninety-six Lenapes killed by rogue Pennsylvania militia men in 1782 might read this collection and find some much deserved peace. That Denise Low... Read More