A concise but engaged work of scientific inquiry, "Modeling the Universe" reframes contemporary understandings of particle physics. A self-proclaimed “modern Voyage of the Beagle,” R. A. Kirby’s mind-bending science book "Modeling... Read More

In extreme cases, imagination is an affliction, or did we mean addiction? Please stop, says the poet, let’s pause here. But that seems not an option for Courtney Bush: “I would calm down if it weren’t for the risk of dislocating my... Read More

In his graphic novel "Nuking Alaska", Peter Dunlap-Shohl reveals the disturbing history of nuclear weapons in his home state. Recounting near-misses and actual nuclear disasters in Alaska and elsewhere, this book weaves personal accounts... Read More

Québécois/Acadian, poet/translator, French/English speaking Dominique Bernier-Cormier was led to believe his ancestor Pierrot Cormier donned a dress to escape prison the night before the Acadian Deportation, a British lowlight of the... Read More

We reckon that nine generations in Appalachia is long enough for a place to get in the bones of a family, and that kinheritance has marked Kari Gunter-Seymour with an intuitive feel for one of America’s most isolated and peculiar... Read More

A child of Houston, Cairo, and Caracas, a mother of three in Bolivia, Emily Bludworth de Barrios comes at her work from all directions at once, with a frenzied takedown of parental angst, violence against women, existential hopelessness,... Read More

Truth spoken by poets matters more simply because the poet settles for nothing but the truth, so help her Veritas, daughter of Saturn. Such vigilance is arduous, and as a queer, Indigenous Hawaiian, No’u Revilla is as singular a voice... Read More

Inspiration: handy stuff, if you can find it. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta secured theirs in the revolutionary struggles of Chicana feminists and Spain’s Post-Franco queer punk movement, so this collection doesn’t play nice with fascists... Read More