Negesti Kaudo probes her most formative experiences in her demanding essay collection "Ripe". This is an intentional collection exploring Kaudo’s discovery of herself, and her Blackness, in relation to personal and collective... Read More

Fans of the bestselling Italian novelist Elena Ferrante will delight in her new collection of eloquent, revelatory essays about what motivates (and bedevils) her as a writer. These Ferrante lectures, commissioned by the University of... Read More

Death and desire take many forms in Suzanne Roberts’s essay collection "Animal Bodies". Across three sections, two concepts rise to the fore: grief and discovery. In the immediate sense, the first section is about death, specifically... Read More

In Luke Francis Beirne’s immersive novel "Foxhunt", cultural ideals are overwhelmed by geopolitical realities and covert operations. In 1949, Milne, a Canadian writer, attends Paris’s International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship... Read More

"Woman, Watching" is Merilyn Simonds’s account of the remarkable life and legacy of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, the amateur ornithologist and author who has been called “the Canadian Rachel Carson.” Born into Sweden’s landed... Read More

A fierce and luminous interpretation of an iconic biblical story, Caryn A. Reeder’s book challenges historical views and reimagines the role of women in the church. The featured story, from the gospel of John, describes a dialogue near... Read More

Peter McDade’s original, quirky novel "Songs by Honeybird" riffs on the 1960s Southern rock scene. In Atlanta, Ben and Nina’s relationship falls apart, even as they move in together. She claims that her dog, Sid, is a reincarnated... Read More

James Mayhew’s "Once Upon a Tune" is a beautiful collection of multicultural folk tales. Recouching traditional tales for young audiences, this illustrated book includes entries like “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (of Fantasia... Read More