A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her idyllic childhood, wherein her father was an architect. While... Read More

A girl and her family attempt to survive a brutal conflict in Ernesto Saade’s harrowing graphic novel "Red Stones". Miriam was twelve when she survived the 1981 Red Stones Massacre. She had traveled with others to a protest; many... Read More

The heartfelt essays and poems in "Queer and Muslim" defend religion’s compatibility with queerness. Religion can be a means of liberation rather than oppression, said Imam Muhsin Hendricks, shot dead in South Africa in 2025.... Read More

Moira Welsh’s compelling social survey addresses the financial, emotional, and social disconnects that many women encounter during their senior years. An investigative journalist, Welsh’s acclaimed Third Act project for the Toronto... Read More

"The Money Habit" is an accessible, practical personal finance guide whose advice is applicable across tax brackets, taking a variety of saving and spending habits into account. Simple but innovative, former angel investor and... Read More

Cassondra Windwalker’s contemplative novel begins with the sudden, challenging loss of a spouse. When Hayden loses his wife, Shelly, to a sudden stroke, he struggles to manage his landscaping business and take care of himself. The... Read More

In Jacqueline Harpman’s riveting novel "I Who Have Never Known Men", a girl emerges from dehumanizing confinement into a troubled and deserted landscape. Following a terrifying event called “the disaster,” thirty-nine women are... Read More

Michel Leboeuf’s "Lost Songs of Nature" is a thought-provoking study of “acoustic ecology,” or the natural and human-made sounds of the world, that carries warnings about contemporary threats to biodiversity. Organized into five... Read More