With memoir entries for transgender youths by transgender people, "Becoming Who We Are" is a comics anthology about the process of becoming yourself as a transgender person. It includes essential representation along with a... Read More

A grandmother and her granddaughter are entombed in a house whose walls hunger for murderous vengeance in Layla Martínez’s horror novel "Woodworm". The women are trapped in their small town due to the curse of the elder’s father.... Read More

A girl seeks to create lasting peace between warring groups in the graphic novel Matilde’s Quest. After an epic battle in the Golden City of Eyes, Boldon, Spike, and Matilde, who has a mechanical arm, secure passage to Matilde’s... Read More

K-Ming Chang’s "Cecilia" is a surreal novella about the intense, intoxicating memories that surface when an outcast reencounters her childhood best friend. In childhood, Seven’s friendship with Cecilia was passionate to the point of... Read More

Herman Melville—mystic, orca oracle, and madness miner—left treasures of material for poets in Moby-Dick, and Steve Mentz found his muse in the idea of an Ahab-less Pequod—a multiracial, queer, and cruisier ship on a bountifully... Read More

A development project ignites a community’s sense of activism in the lesson-filled novel "The Caretaker". In Ken Saik’s idealized novel "The Caretaker", citizens of idyllic Aspen Grove explore what it means to care for a place or a... Read More

"Red Harvest" is a gripping historical graphic novel covering the oppression and starvation of Ukrainian farmers under Soviet rule. Framed by the memories of Mykola, a Ukrainian immigrant to Canada, the book recounts Josef Stalin’s... Read More

George Lange’s emotive, retrospective photography collection "Picturing Joy" captures the personalities of his subjects. In one exuberant image, a group of young African refugees plays on the beach, their likenesses caught mid-leap.... Read More