Everyone’s favorite pet man returns in Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow’s graphic novel "Manfried Saves the Day". A follow-up to last year’s Manfried the Man, "Manfried Saves the Day" brings back Manfried’s owner Steve Catson and... Read More

Ari Silverman’s violent encounter with a neighborhood boy leaves him questioning himself in Aaron Hamburger’s "Nirvana Is Here", a coming-of-age novel set outside Detroit amid the rise of grunge. It is a nostalgic, wrenching... Read More

In Lynn Lurie’s "Museum of Stones", a woman experiences parenting as a cross between profound love and constant, only sometimes low-grade terror. Swinging between the past and the present, the novel moves from the mother’s rough... Read More

An open-minded search for meaning that covers much literal and metaphysical ground, "Is God in That Bottle Cap?" is a compelling and interesting text. John D. Sambalino’s mystical "Is God in That Bottle Cap?" deftly mixes elements of a... Read More