One of our favorite books of the March/April 2021 issue introduced us to John Mack, a brilliant author and top Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who inexplicably developed an obsession with alien abduction—and nearly lost his career... Read More

Is there anything a graphic novel can’t do? We think not. Take Myriam Steinberg’s Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)Fertility—an extraordinary feat of visual storytelling chronicling her five years of fertility treatment prior to the... Read More

We’re always on the lookout for stellar romantic fantasies, so when Eileen Gonzalez’s review ofDaughter of the Salt King came back with an emphatic STAR, we jumped at the opportunity to connect Eileen with Salt King‘s talented... Read More

The classics of American literature are continually set upon by admiring screenplaywrights, short story adapters, marketers, and all manner of opportunists seeking to profit by association. Alas, most borrowings are ill advised,... Read More

It doesn’t happen but a few times a year but when a book like Kazim Ali’s Northern Light comes along our excitement is palpable—but the happy discovery also bears with it the duty and responsibility we have to alert our readers and... Read More

It’s not often that we can say, with confidence, that we’re witnessing the beginnings of a career of significance—usually, such realizations only come when we’re looking back! But two years ago, when we received Eugen Bacon’s... Read More

Welcome to February: Black History Month 2021—and not a moment too soon. Judging by the racial fireworks we’ve lived through the past several months, this nationally recognized twenty-eight day holiday is needed more than ever. Back... Read More

All those years ago, when Donald Trump first became POTUS, do you remember the chatter about how the office would change him, would humble his fast-talking celebrity schtick, that once the massive sense of responsibility sunk in, he... Read More