Yalie Saweda Kamara’s lucent poetry collection "Besaydoo" encircles matters of race, heritage, boundaries, and exchanging “worry for hope.” California-born poet Kamara challenges the description of Oakland as a “killing field.”... Read More

In extreme cases, imagination is an affliction, or did we mean addiction? Please stop, says the poet, let’s pause here. But that seems not an option for Courtney Bush: “I would calm down if it weren’t for the risk of dislocating my... Read More

In the breathtaking and riveting stories of Amber Caron’s Call Up the Waters, people living close to nature exhibit stubborn resilience and aching sadness. The ten stories in this stunning collection include startling details and... Read More

In Dorothy Tse’s novel "Owlish", a bizarre love affair upends a respectable man’s dull but orderly life in a city that is anything but ordinary. Perhaps it was inevitable that Professor Q, a middle-aged man caught in a dead-end job... Read More

In Katja Brandis’s imaginative novel Carag’s Transformation, a shapeshifter leaves his family to live in the human world. Carag is a shapeshifter, or a woodwalker, who lives as a puma with his family outside of Jackson Hole. At... Read More

Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s essay collection "Halfway from Home" is careful in its considerations of home, family, the natural world, and how the three intersect. Beginning in Montgomery’s childhood in a dusty California town, “Dig”... Read More

Two outcasts from a troubled Rwandan village try to save their country in Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel "Kibogo". In the 1940s and 1950s, Rwanda faced numerous tragedies, including drought, famine, war, and continuing repression by... Read More

Set during a turbulent era, "Fallout Shelter" follows as three Catholic men come of age—and as their friendships change. In Steven Schindler’s novel "Fallout Shelter", three boys from the Bronx stick together through their Catholic... Read More