This atmospheric novel is all about valuing women’s ideas, stories, art, and bodies. Pushcart Prize finalist Bev Jafek’s "The Sacred Beasts" is a fiercely feminist novel that makes space for women’s stories and art in the midst of... Read More

Hole in the Heart: Bringing Up Beth, part of Penn State’s Graphic Medicine series, is artist Henny Beaumont’s brutally honest, and ultimately uplifting, account of raising a daughter with Down syndrome. “Hole in the heart” refers... Read More

This is a unique, refreshing, and even hopeful look at the interplay between faith and government. Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market, by Torkel Brekke, makes the argument that the absence of government involvement is best for... Read More

This affecting, dimensional work centers on the power gained by losing oneself in the mythology of others. Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill: Englishmen, twentieth-century icons, and, in Austrian writer Michael Köhlmeier’s rich... Read More

Zack Lieberman and Louis Neubert collaborate on the rollicking, thought-provoking tale of a boy and his dog, in the graphic novel Max & Charlie. Charlie, a young boy with a vivid imagination, finds himself searching for his dog in... Read More