Kendall Vanderslice’s tantalizing "We Will Feast" showcases the power of food in Christian faith communities. Most people have experienced intense bonding over a meal, but why and how does it happen—and can eating occupy a central... Read More

The Teen Titans’ resident mystery girl goes solo in Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo’s graphic novel Teen Titans: Raven. The latest in DC Ink’s line of young adult graphic novels focuses on Raven, a super-powered heroine best known... Read More

Cutting satire and humorous jeremiads expose the hypocrisies of keeping up with the Joneses in Erlend Loe’s novel "Doppler". After his father dies, Andreas Doppler suffers a breakdown, drops out of society, and goes to live in a tent... Read More

For LGBTQ Christians, especially those in evangelical churches, the decision to come out can mean being shunned, dismissed from church leadership or service positions, and made to feel eternally excluded from God’s love. Despite these... Read More

MariNaomi continues her immersive saga of teenagers and possible alien abductions in Gravity’s Pull. The Life on Earth trilogy thus far has been a model of slowly rising action, centered on a group of teens consumed by relationship... Read More

In Jaco Jacobs’s "A Good Night for Shooting Zombies", Martin’s life is shattered the day his father is killed in a car accident. Two years later, his normally gregarious ex-actress mother is housebound, his sister is always out with... Read More

Natalie Ruth Joynton’s "Welcome to Replica Dodge" is a memoir about religion, place, and curious spiritual and literal journeys. Written with warmth, candor, and beautifully pensive language, "Welcome to Replica Dodge" follows Joynton... Read More

The destructive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 may be growing more distant in the public consciousness, but in Kimura Yūsuke’s Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge, forceful twin... Read More