In busy Beijing, everyone is connected. So a writer discovers when he’s tasked with telling the billionaire Qin’s enmeshed story in Jonathan Tel’s deliciously tangled Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao. In the book’s opening... Read More

"Healing Racial Trauma" is an artful and ambitious examination of racism and faith. Identifying and describing the different, constant, and overlapping impacts of racism, the text will be educational to those for whom racism’s impacts... Read More

A girl’s existence threatens to envelop the world in war in the graphic novel Wonder Woman: Warbringer. Diana, a young princess on the island of Themyscira, is eager to prove herself a worthy Amazon. In the midst of an important race... Read More

Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada’s gripping graphic novel "Banned Book Club" is based on the true story of a South Korean student who learned the costs and rewards of standing up to tyranny. Though often seen as the antithesis to North... Read More

In Tomas Moniz’s bighearted novel "Big Familia", a man comes to terms with changes in his family, his neighborhood, and himself. Juan Gutiérrez lives with his daughter, Stella, in a gentrifying neighborhood in Berkeley. Stella is... Read More

In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, many Russians fled the country and ensconced themselves in interwar Europe. Irina Odoevtseva’s novel "Isolde" speaks to the sense of alienation that many young Russians felt as they waited,... Read More

The moving poems collected in "Rain and Embers" focus on displacement and the search for one’s place in the world. Iraqi refugee-turned-American citizen Ali Nuri’s lyrical poetry collection "Rain and Embers" focuses on his quest for... Read More

Fiona Alison Duncan’s "Exquisite Mariposa" is a funny, thought-provoking novel that levels pointed critiques at gender and class inequality and captures what it’s like to be a young person today. The novel’s narrator—a woman in... Read More