Generations of women wrestle with an inherited legacy of trauma in Celeste Mohammed’s sprawling novel-in-stories "Ever Since We Small". Split into two sections, “Then” and “Now,” the novel does a masterful job of capturing the... Read More

In her enlightening book "Reader Bot", Naomi S. Baron examines the benefits and sacrifices of human dependency on AI for reading, writing, and research. Noting that AI has exploded in the past few years, offering to make work easier,... Read More

This picture book honors the history and the present of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, a 12,000-mile stretch of coast from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida. Five children invite readers to experience... Read More

In Fidan Meikle’s empathetic novel "My Name Is Samim", a young Afghani refugee faces numerous dangers in his search for safety and belonging. Sensitive thirteen-year-old Samim narrates in dual timelines. In the present, he is a foster... Read More

A boy plays a parental role for a baby kaiju in E. C. Myers’s adventure-minded chapter book "Kaiju Gaga". On a trip to the Museum of Media, a boy drifts away from his class and visits an exhibit called Monster Movie Mania. There he... Read More

A murder in the Reconstruction-era South is excavated in Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs’s history book "The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw". Following the conclusion of the Civil War, small-town citizens in places like Graham, North... Read More

Noelle Cook’s "The Conspiracists" is an in-depth, empathetic study of conspiracism, filtered through the outlook of two women involved in storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Cook ponders what draws middle-aged women, in... Read More

Art historian Roger Lipsey spent decades studying world art and encountering important pieces around the world. In "Eyes to See", a well-curated and contextualized virtual museum in book form, he highlights works that became meaningful... Read More