In Tziporah Cohen’s "No Vacancy", an eleven-year-old leaves New York City after her parents buy a rundown motel upstate. At the Jewel Motor Inn, in New York’s Finger Lakes region, Miriam shares a grimy room, painted a color... Read More

In Mathew New’s absurdist graphic novel, a teenage boy and his talking duck seek out adventure in an attempt to prove the boy’s worth as an explorer. Billy, a part-time janitor, is really an explorer. With Barrace, a duck who is also... Read More

Caitlin Chung’s wondrous "Ship of Fates" begins with the ancient legend of Wong Zhi Mei, a Chinese bride promised by her family to a foreign suitor. But teenage Mei yearns for true love, and she steals the suitor’s proffered gold and... Read More

A galactic mail carrier is forced to switch from his usual route, resulting in a day of misadventures and excitement, in Guillaume Perreault’s delightful graphic novel The Postman from Space. Bob is an ordinary human, a space postman,... Read More

Credited with igniting Korea’s next feminist wave, "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982" censures patriarchal cultures with its rage-inducing stories of everyday abuses. One ordinary night in his ordinary home, Daehyun notices that a change has... Read More

"Market Forces" is a thoughtful analytical work for those who make decisions about the long-term strategies of their residential senior communities. According to Jill J. Johnson’s informative trend analysis text "Market Forces", the... Read More

Bob Eckstein selects cartoons whose themes are critics and criticism in the collection Everyone’s a Critic. Eckstein, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MAD Magazine, has picked a perfect topic: in the... Read More

For many small towns around the world, World War I was a seismic event, and the Canadian town of Merritt in British Columbia’s Nicola Valley is a prime example. A town that even today only has a few thousand residents lost forty-four... Read More