Josh L. Davis’s illustrated and informative science text "A Little Queer Natural History" reveals that the natural world is more complex and inclusive than people often assume. The book profiles the sexual behaviors of an array of... Read More

The good poet’s body slowly leaves one sex for another and she wonders what else, if anything, will change—the Jewishness that influences so much of her world; the Holocaust memories of twelve murdered ancestors; love and sex; fear... Read More

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