Romance and intimacy are not pathways to anyone’s happily-ever-after in the poems of "The Thorn Key", whose entries are seamless in reimagining fairy tales in the context of feminist values. Folklorist Jeana Jorgensen’s muscular... Read More

Filled with advice for Christians to welcome God’s love into their lives, How to Walk with God like Enoch is an assertive religious guide. Emmanuel Omere’s evangelizing guide How to Walk with God like Enoch calls for the rejection of... Read More

In Scott Alexander Hess’s pastoral novel "Drought", an isolated man inherits a farm and learns about the estranged relative who left it to him. When Parnell, an aimless orphan, inherits a tobacco farm from his Uncle Willy, he moves to... Read More

Michael N. McGregor’s musing memoir "An Island to Myself" is about using the practice of solitude to develop personal authenticity and enhanced creativity. In 1985, McGregor, then twenty-seven, quit his job as a magazine editor and... Read More

The skillful poems of Songs from Fern’s Pond explore loss, family, and the power of human will. Sheryl Pothier Harmer’s Songs from Fern’s Pond is a stirring poetic tribute to her mother, who staked out a solitary, hardscrabble... Read More

Keith Gilyard’s sprawling memoir "The Promise of Language" makes a passionate case for the power of language, particularly Black language, to transform lives and enliven art and culture. Born in Harlem and raised in Queens, Gilyard... Read More

In Richard Chiappone’s dark and humorous short story collection "Uncommon Weather", people battle isolation, boredom, and existential anxiety. These twelve intricate stories are set in Alaska’s small towns and vast wildernesses and... Read More

Awing over Jerusalem as “the place of all places,” Bret Lott’s memoir "Gather the Olives" relishes in time spent among Israelis and Palestinians. Lott, who loves Hebrew Bible “stories for their action, their mystery, their terror... Read More