Full of “girls who don’t apologize for who they are,” Mathangi Subramanian’s A People’s History of Heaven proves heaven isn’t about a distant perfection. Here, Heaven is a Bangalore slum where people are bound together by... Read More

Richard Chiem’s "King of Joy" traces an abandoned girl’s tragic trajectory from unloved teenager to abandoned bride to snuff porn queen. This experimental literary novel is the right amount of both dreamy and dark. Corvus, limp and... Read More

Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker, and Manuela Pertega have created a graphic novel version of a story long thought to be lost in "Giraffes on Horseback Salad". Based on the only known copy of artist Salvador Dali’s rough script, which he... Read More

Separating North and South Korea, the demilitarized zone reaches 154 miles from sea to sea and has gradually become home to otters, seals, mountain goats, water deer, and more. Softly drawn yet powerful images uncover a peaceful wildlife... Read More

Natalie Ruth Joynton’s "Welcome to Replica Dodge" is a memoir about religion, place, and curious spiritual and literal journeys. Written with warmth, candor, and beautifully pensive language, "Welcome to Replica Dodge" follows Joynton... Read More

In this beautifully bittersweet expression of love and loss, Asha mourns her grandma’s death while learning to treasure her life and memory. With two long braids, bright blue glasses, a cheerful collection of knee-high socks, and a... Read More

Shattering melancholia and desire and cobbling together fresh wonders from the pieces, the stories of Sarah Pinsker’s speculative "Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea" emit appealing weirdness. In these odd and alluring... Read More

Traditional superstitions are the inspiration for a rich, fully imagined fantasy world in the graphic novel "Haphaven". Alex, a girl who’s about to turn thirteen, is captive to her superstitions. From the stories of her long dead... Read More