Monic Ductan’s relationship-focused short story collection "Daughters of Muscadine" traces a small town’s triumphs and tragedies. Small towns can be comforting and oppressive—a source of connection, but also the root of larger... Read More

In Christine Lai’s haunting novel "Landscapes", a wounded woman contends with memories, artifacts, loss, and hope. Penelope is an English country estate’s archivist and librarian; she’s been there for twenty-two years. Her partner,... Read More

As humans wage war on each other and on nature, a visionary Wisconsin forester discovers a poisoned gift within himself in B. Pladek’s historical novel "Dry Land". Rand trained to be a forester after losing his beloved marshland to... Read More

Carol Mitchell’s novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ moves between the United States and Caribbean islands in search of buried memories. Amaya has vague memories of her life in Jamaica before she moved to Trinidad and met her husband,... Read More

"Corn Dance" is Potawatomi chef, television host, and Corn Dance Café founder Loretta Barrett Oden’s inviting cookbook; it explores Indigenous ingredients and foodways. After raising a family in Oklahoma, Oden traveled to research... Read More

Peter Coviello reflects on myriad opportunities for connection through critical engagement with the arts in his intriguing essay collection "Is There God after Prince?" The collection is separated into five sections. The first,... Read More

"Agincourt" is an innovative historical reinterpretation of the Battle of Agincourt. In 1415, England and France endured an epic showdown in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War. The battle reverberated through the centuries, helped by... Read More

Polyamorous relationship coach Evita Sawyers’s "A Polyamory Devotional" shares a year’s worth of daily insights into ethical nonmonogamy. It’s an intimate look at the emotional ups and downs of polyamory and the self-awareness that... Read More