Equal parts cozy and spooky, this autumnal picture book demonstrates the importance of openness among friends—and the monstrous consequences of hidden resentments. When the weather turns cold and the crowds abandon the headlands, Fox... Read More

In reflective prose, Tariq Mehmood’s kaleidoscopic novel "Sing to the Western Wind" unravels the life of man driven to the brink by political and religious violence. Saleem is at the end of his life. He has bombs strapped to his chest... Read More

When she’s raising a young child, a mother’s day often finds her of two minds: one, not so different from other women; the other, sharing the eyes, ears, and minute-by-minute miracles that come with her flesh and blood experiencing... Read More

In early thirteenth-century Japan, calligrapher Fujiwara no Teika chose one hundred poems of solitude, nature, aging, loneliness, beauty, and desire from one hundred poets of the previous five centuries—Hyakunin Isshu—a collection... Read More

Poetry must come from somewhere that is more than the sum of family, race, education, history, culture, gender, pain, and passion. Every poet, of course, draws on as much, but why is it that so many Black women poets’ where-from place... Read More

No American education should be considered complete without a visceral understanding of plantation life for teenage Black girls in the slavery centuries before the Civil War, when molestation and sexual trauma were so routine that... Read More

A riveting story set in the hemispheric crossroads between Panama and Colombia, journalist Belén Fernández’s "The Darién Gap" reports on the inhospitable journey migrants and refuge seekers endure for a chance at a better life in... Read More

A woman discovers her new fiancé and his family are not what they seem in Audrey Wilson’s Midwestern thriller "The Ever End". Following her mother’s death, Margo represses her grief with an engagement to Sam, her boyfriend of six... Read More