A delivery boy tasked with delivering a package faces a series of deadly obstacles in the absurdist graphic novel "The Last Delivery". The story turns with the unpredictable intensity of a dream. Its nameless hero, uniformed and... Read More
In Eli Horowitz’s rich, thoughtful fantasy novel "The Final Days of Kobold Kody’s Frontier Exposition and Tonic Show", talented misfits navigate a magical world. Melding elements of the Wild West with a land in which dragons,... Read More
A young man joins a ghost in a high-stakes car race in the graphic novel "Hex Americana". Ken lives in a world inhabited by gnomes, ghosts, a cyclops, and a two-headed race announcer. He identifies as Yokai American, derived from the... Read More
In Jente Posthuma’s bittersweet novel What I’d Rather Not Think About, a woman who is bereft after her twin brother’s suicide searches to understand his mental illness. The fraternal twins at the center of the story have peculiar... Read More
A young mage battles horrific monsters in the graphic novel "Mage and the Endless Unknown". In an idyllic scene, a child wakes and uses their magic to grow flowers. But a monster comes from the sky and swallows them—the first of many... Read More
Amy Rose shares her experiences with growing up in a cult in her graphic memoir "Occulted". In 1997, at the age of nine, Amy Rose saw the Hale-Bopp comet in the sky. It corresponded with a tragedy: the members of the nearby Heaven’s... Read More
A woman relives her traumatic sexual assault in Tatiana Salem Levy’s epistolary novel "Vista Chinesa". Júlia went for her daily run to Vista Chinesa, a lookout point in Rio de Janeiro, on an ordinary afternoon. While she was... Read More
In Nathacha Appanah’s luminous novel "The Sky above the Roof", a teenager’s impulsive, confused actions lead to his imprisonment. Formidable, intense Phoenix was forced to be a child entertainer. Doll-like, she sang for adoring... Read More