"Slime" is Susanne Wedlich’s lively scientific study that underscores the importance of the slimy life forms and inert viscous interfaces that enervate the biosphere. “Slime” is the catchall phrase for all the slippery, gooey... Read More

Chaucer scholar Marion Turner’s experimental work of literary criticism charts a character’s lasting influence on international culture. A character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, the... Read More

A Kiowa woman returns to her Oklahoma reservation in D. M. Rowell’s ominous novel "Never Name the Dead". Summoned home by an unusual phone call, Mud takes leave from her Silicon Valley job to meet her grandfather, James. James is a... Read More

Origins: The Compound is a gory, gritty fantasy adventure in which a headstrong young man grapples with his sense of duty in the face of unrelenting malevolence. In Noah Kempton’s fantasy novel Origins: The Compound, an orphaned boy... Read More

Harrison Mooney’s moving memoir "Invisible Boy" concerns adoption, race, and racism in evangelical circles. In his adulthood, Mooney become an award-winning journalist. He worked for the Vancouver Sun for nearly a decade as a reporter,... Read More

Gary J. Smith recalls how he helped to organize a historic hockey tournament between Canada and the Soviet Union in his memoir "Ice War Diplomat". In 1972, with the Cold War still in full swing, the relationship between Canada and the... Read More

Chris Dombrowski’s poetic memoir "The River You Touch" captures the natural beauty and drama of Montana. Dombrowski was nineteen when he moved from central Michigan to Missoula, Montana. He was enticed there by the writing of fellow... Read More

A companion book to Juno Dawson’s earlier This Book Is Gay, What’s the T? takes a phrase from New York City’s 1980s drag ball scene that means “What’s the truth?” and uses it to unpack the joys, difficulties, and realities... Read More