Jamie Bruesehoff’s thoughtful book Raising Kids Beyond the Binary explores issues of gender identity from a personalized, Christian perspective. With elements of a memoir, this is a clear guide to understanding gender identities... Read More

Shilpi Suneja’s novel "House of Caravans" depicts the turbulent end of British-ruled India along with the ensuing violence amid the region’s Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Beyond this time of ravaged independence and the 1947... Read More

Monic Ductan’s relationship-focused short story collection "Daughters of Muscadine" traces a small town’s triumphs and tragedies. Small towns can be comforting and oppressive—a source of connection, but also the root of larger... Read More

In Christine Lai’s haunting novel "Landscapes", a wounded woman contends with memories, artifacts, loss, and hope. Penelope is an English country estate’s archivist and librarian; she’s been there for twenty-two years. Her partner,... Read More

As humans wage war on each other and on nature, a visionary Wisconsin forester discovers a poisoned gift within himself in B. Pladek’s historical novel "Dry Land". Rand trained to be a forester after losing his beloved marshland to... Read More

Carol Mitchell’s novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ moves between the United States and Caribbean islands in search of buried memories. Amaya has vague memories of her life in Jamaica before she moved to Trinidad and met her husband,... Read More

"Corn Dance" is Potawatomi chef, television host, and Corn Dance Café founder Loretta Barrett Oden’s inviting cookbook; it explores Indigenous ingredients and foodways. After raising a family in Oklahoma, Oden traveled to research... Read More

Peter Coviello reflects on myriad opportunities for connection through critical engagement with the arts in his intriguing essay collection "Is There God after Prince?" The collection is separated into five sections. The first,... Read More