Nonbinary poet Xandria Phillips’s poetry collection "Hull" employs the language of dreams and fraught journeys, laying bare the historical and current threats to black and queer bodies. The still-powerful forces of colonialism and... Read More

In the fifteen stories of Toni Kan’s short story collection "Nights of the Creaking Bed", characters in contemporary Nigeria navigate struggles including family situations to government corruption. These short sketches—sometimes... Read More

A hunt for both literal and metaphorical treasures, Sandra A. Miller’s memoir "Trove" is a personal search to answer a lifetime’s worth of deep and difficult questions. Since she was a child, Miller’s eyes have always searched the... Read More

Dan Hooper’s "At the Edge of Time" charts what is understood, and what remains a mystery, about the Big Bang—that moment 13.7 billion years ago of inconceivably high temperatures, fast expansion, and particles and forces like gravity... Read More

Alex April can see and hear ghosts, and they know to come to him with their problems. His best friend, Bones, is fascinated by the supernatural and is a regular at paranormal conventions, but doesn’t have Alex’s gifts. Together, they... Read More

Cult favorite Jung Young Moon’s "Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River" is a meditation on the nature of existence that’s mediated through the question of what constitutes a novel. It is a “story about Texas, but at the same time, a... Read More

Simon Bajada’s enticing and inspiring cookbook "Baltic" is an ode to a region that, though influenced by outsiders, remains all its own. Bajada presents the post-Soviet cuisines of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as diverse and... Read More

"Tree of Life" is a dynamic retrospective of Tim Biskup’s paintings, sculptures, and artistic philosophy. His art career balanced chaos with strategy before it veered from showing at galleries to working and interacting with people... Read More