The Country Under Heaven / Frederic S. Durbin / Melville House / Softcover $20.99 (336pp) / 978-1-68589-169-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Dizzying visions haunt the otherwise delicate beauty of Frederic S. Durbin’s... Read More

Reviewer Katy Keffer Interviews Isabelle Morley, Author of They’re Not Gaslighting You: Ditch the Therapy Speak and Stop Hunting for Red Flags in Every Relationship / After a years-long perfect storm of Covid isolation, social media... Read More

Lots of years around books has taught us a few things about writers. To whit: pay attention when an author says something along the lines of, “it was important to me to write this story.” Most often, that tell signifies an extremely... Read More

Beyond They/Them / 20 Influential Nonbinary and Gender-Diverse People You Should Know / Em Dickson / Cameron Mukwa, illustrator / Andrews McMeel Publishing / Hardcover $21.99 (96pp) / 978-1-5248-9399-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore... Read More

Reviewer Katy Keffer Interviews Earl Campazzi, Author of Living with Pancreatic Cancer: A Patient and Family Guide / For all the hullabaloo, one simple fact about artificial intelligence should hold your attention: AI may save your life.... Read More

In the main, thrillers coming out of the Nordic regions are grim, as if their writers all work for a sinister tourist bureau intent on frightening the wits out of any potential foreign travelers. So, brutal cold, unrelenting darkness,... Read More

Painting Wonder / How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien / Katie Wray Schon / Waxwing Books / Hardcover $18.99 (48pp) / 978-1-956393-15-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In this picture book,... Read More

“In our society we seem to think that queer people have some need to ’come out,’ and that until they have, they are ’lying’ to others about their true identity. In this book, the idea of people earning your trust and your truth... Read More