“The funny thing about queerness is that you never really stop coming out. Each new person I meet, every interaction, every time I stand up in front of a new class of students, I have to calculate how I’m going to embrace my whole... Read More

A Perfect Day to Be Alone / Nanae AoyamaJesse Kirkwood, translator / Other Press / Softcover $15.99 (160pp) / 978-1-63542-539-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Nanae Aoyama’s droll novella A Perfect Day to Be Alone,... Read More

The term “linguistic wear” points to the idea that a word used too often becomes stale and, after a while, numbs listeners to any meaning at all. English speakers are running into that issue with the language surrounding climate... Read More

Heaven and Hell / The Trilogy about the Boy / Jón Kalman StefánssonPhilip Roughton, translator / Biblioasis / Softcover $17.95 (215pp) / 978-1-77196-651-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A kindred relationship is... Read More

A Conversation with Kamalani Hurley, Author of Kaho’olawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People / Hawaii may be the youngest and most remote of our states but you’d be wrong to think its history is any less rich than the other... Read More

“I’ve been doing this work for a long time, and I’ve found that my deep commitment to justice and the well-being of affected communities is what keeps me going. It’s about finding strength in solidarity and small victories and... Read More