Reviewer Mari Carlson Interviews Elizabeth Tucker, Author of The Pale Flesh of Wood / The tongue-in-cheek quip about what it takes to be a good writer, you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed, is of uncertain... Read More

Editor-in-Chief Michelle Schingler Interviews Kao Kalia Yang, Author of A Home on the Page / The word “America” has long been lingua franca the world over to describe this shining land of opportunity, freedom, and rule of law that we... Read More

Ready for a new flavor of the immigrant story? Between 1838 and 1917, more than a million young laborers from British India signed deceptive, long-term contracts to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean. The reason those plantation... Read More

Chicken Heart / Morgan Boecher / Street Noise Books / Softcover $23.99 (260pp) / 978-1-951491-44-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Morgan Boecher’s emotive graphic novel Chicken Heart is an exploration of individual gender... Read More

Reviewer Caroline Goldberg Igra Interviews M. E. Torrey, Author of Fox Creek: Book 1 of the Fox Creek Plantation Trilogy / It is not a stretch to say that the United States continues to suffer from a lingering sense of PTSD from... Read More

Safe Spaces for Inspired Souls / This issue, with its dedicated focus on women’s stories and future-peering science fiction novels, is a special one. Though it arrives to you during soul-trying times, it is infused with our hearty... Read More

Call to Action: Join the “Contact the Governor Day“ on Monday, March 2, 2026 Open Letter to the Publishing Community At the end of last year, I published articles respectively in September, November, and December, in Booklist, The... Read More

On the occasion of her newly released Always Carry Salt this week, Samantha Ellis joins Editor-in-Chief Michelle Schingler to talk about the heartbreaking exodus of 135,000 Jews from Iraq in the early 1950s, and the imminent extinction... Read More