Mesmerizing and sweet, the picture book "Night-night, Body" sends each body part off to sleep in rhyming and communal form. Ted Scheu’s bright and inviting picture book "Night-night, Body" depicts the bedtime routines of families... Read More

In the best of poetry—unmistakably present and resonant to the reader—we find the physical embodiment of wordcraft: sound, rhythm, music. What Roy Scheele creates on the page is poetry’s equivalent to the enlightenment of the... Read More

Negesti Kaudo probes her most formative experiences in her demanding essay collection "Ripe". This is an intentional collection exploring Kaudo’s discovery of herself, and her Blackness, in relation to personal and collective... Read More

Death and desire take many forms in Suzanne Roberts’s essay collection "Animal Bodies". Across three sections, two concepts rise to the fore: grief and discovery. In the immediate sense, the first section is about death, specifically... Read More

In William Hamilton’s posthumously-issued novel "The Dark of the Stars", two teenagers enter a mythical realm, where they band together to survive. Robert is an orphan who is planning to go on a holiday with his friends. Instead, he is... Read More

More than a memoir about sustainable farming in Scotland, Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer’s "Our Wild Farming Life" delves into the history and present-day concerns of the region’s ecology. In 2016, after years spent dreaming of owning... Read More

The Bee & The Fly is an absorbing epistolary novel in which two of the nineteenth century’s most beloved women writers exchange their concerns about writing and contemporaneous issues. Framed as an attic discovery, these winsome... Read More

In the graphic novel "The Lions of Leningrad", Russian adolescents fight to survive German attacks, starvation, and Joseph Stalin’s iron-fisted rule. Following a gunshot at a Leningrad concert in 1962, a man is arrested. He recounts... Read More