The creative, bracing essays of Rebecca May Johnson’s "Small Fires" redefine the act of cooking and elevate the value of domestic labor. They critique what it means to interpret recipes; with a combination of intellectual rigor and... Read More

In Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s emotive novel "Glassworks", four generations struggle under the weight of unexpressed feelings, unsaid words, and unmet needs. It starts with a bee. In 1910, heiress Agnes takes a renowned glass artist,... Read More

Award-winning Gitxsan journalist Angela Sterritt is “holding … pens of healing” in "Unbroken", a thought-provoking memoir about advocating for missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Highway 16 in Vancouver is known as the... Read More

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The City of Lost Chances is a gritty adventure fantasy of uncommon breadth, fashioning a universe brimming with magic and treachery. Illmar was recently conquered by Pallesand, an authoritarian nation. The shocking... Read More

This exquisite book collects horrifying and supernatural Japanese folk tales, enhancing them with haunting artwork. Lafcadio Hearn was an American transplant in Japan. He married there and changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo; he published... Read More

Sean Ferrell’s novel "The Sinister Secrets of Singe" is a complex morality tale—an epic-scale steampunk vision of troubled family relationships. In the near past, the residents of Liberty bucked for autonomy against their sovereign,... Read More

Syrian refugees fight to survive in Haya Saleh’s moving novel "Wild Poppies", about how brotherhood endures wartime. Omar is fifteen. His father was martyred in a bombing. Omar and his remaining family shelter at his aunt’s home.... Read More

A man confronts the dark, hidden sides of his personality in the thrilling graphic novel "Night Fever". Jonathan can’t sleep. An American who’s in Europe for business, he is distracted from his work responsibilities and disturbed by... Read More