Jesusland / Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture / Joelle Kidd / ECW Press / Softcover $19.95 (352pp) / 978-1-77041-779-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Joelle Kidd’s cultural critique Jesusland surveys... Read More

Reviewer Ryan Prado Interviews Jinwoo Park, Author of Oxford Soju Club / For all the contention about immigration among First World nations, it’s important to remember that our species has migration in its DNA. Out of Africa, humans... Read More

Gothic novelist Ronnie Turner has some pretty strong feelings about female beauty. In fact, the way beauty marks young women as targets for sexual abuse infuriates her. In the interview below, she cites the Pleiades myth—Orion stalks... Read More

Trumpets of Death / Simon Bournel-Bosson / Graphic Universe / Softcover $17.99 (232pp) / 979-876564432-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A boy is turned into a deer in Simon Bournel-Bosson’s surreal graphic novel Trumpets of... Read More

How One Survivor of WWII-era US Concentration Camps is Speaking Out Through History: An Interview with Satsuki Ina, Author of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest / Early in Man’s Search for Meaning,... Read More

This week we’re joined by Chloe Michelle Howarth, an Irishwoman whose debut novel explores the forbidden love of teenagers Lucy and Susannah in rural Ireland during the early 1990s—a time when homosexuality was criminalized in that... Read More