Megan Lara Negendank’s essential self-help guide teaches helpful skills for supporting a partner who has experienced sexual trauma. Explaining the nature and impact of sexual trauma on survivors and those close to them, the book delves... Read More

In Sean Michaels’s prescient and fascinating novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", a famous poet is asked to co-write a poem with an AI. At seventy-five years old, Marian—who wears capes, a tricorn hat, and bikinis—is... Read More

The unnamed narrator of Sheena Patel’s edgy novel I’m a Fan is a woman of color and a stalker. Although she lives with her doting boyfriend, the writer is having an affair with a rich, prominent, emotionally unavailable man who is... Read More

A memoir about transgender womanhood and the messy art of self-construction, McKenzie Wark’s "Love and Money, Sex and Death" models how identity muddies the waters of who you are, what you want to be like, and who you want to be with.... Read More

With its beguiling blend of evocative images, summaries of historical research, and wide-ranging literary quotes, "Hausgeister!" is an appealing “supernatural bestiary” of German house spirits. Hausgeisters are unique—different... Read More

A country’s first Black chief inspector investigates the disappearance of a powerful white man in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s spellbinding mystery novel "The Quality of Mercy". Spokes, once a porter for the British Army, felt convicted... Read More

Robert Jay Lifton’s thought-provoking book "Surviving Our Catastrophes" says that survivors can teach the world much about resilience. Two assumptions function as the starting point in the study represented by this book: one, that a... Read More

In Tim Collins’s fun puzzle quest novel "Sherlock Bones and the Mystery of the Vanishing Magician", a detective dog and his Watsonesque cat companion are embroiled in an epic caper involving hypnosis, a passel of animals, and a series... Read More