Anna Veltfort’s piercing graphic memoir "Goodbye, My Havana" reveals the oppression of Cuba’s citizens by the authoritarian Castro government, as witnessed and experienced by a young lesbian woman. Veltfort was a teenager in 1962... Read More

In João Reis’s melancholy yet comic The Translator’s Bride, a nameless translator in a nameless city struggles to interpret his own life, wandering through a frustrating maze of streetcars, chilling rain, and moldy interiors. His... Read More

Chris Fink’s intricate and melancholic story collection "Add This to the List of Things that You Are" focuses on people in the moments that could come to define them. Fink’s characters seem resigned to their respective fates even as... Read More

As a decades-long newspaper reporter, Peter Copeland covered some of the biggest stories of the late twentieth century. He was part of the last generation of foreign correspondents in the heyday of the profession. He shares those... Read More

"Baltimore Lives" collects 101 black-and-white portraits of residents of the city’s neglected neighborhoods by John Clark Mayden. As noted in the eloquent foreword, they show “the everyday beauty and pain of Black life in... Read More

Abigail Tarttelin’s "Dead Girls" is an ultra creepy, occult-tinged horror story. Focused on a missing girl, it shows that the wild places of childhood are not all magical and good. Billie—who likes Slater from Saved by the Bell,... Read More

Most human beings live with light pollution; in the US, 99 percent of people exist under blank skies, drenched in artificial light. But when you travel to dark sites, you “fill that blankness with the entire universe above you.” If... Read More

Robert Cocuzzo’s satisfying travel story "The Road to San Donato" is about honoring family connections and self-discovery in the context of history. Cocuzzo and his father, Stephen, set out to return to the Italian mountain village of... Read More