Combining gritty realism, mysterious gods, and a noble heroine, "Dark Cloud" is a vibrant, exciting graphic novel. In Sandra Wolff and Jared Barel’s post-apocalyptic screenplay-turned-graphic novel "Dark Cloud", a woman fights to stop... Read More

The death of the world is imminent in Erica L. Satifka’s short story collection "How to Get to Apocalypse", which, flecked with cyberpunk details, explores its many possible endings. Although Armageddon is often projected as an atomic... Read More

Don and Petie Kladstrup’s "Champagne Charlie" is the enjoyable biography of Charles Heidsieck, a dazzling, daring, and adroit French champagne merchant who risked his life and limbs to sell his esteemed bubbly to Americans in the... Read More

In Remy Maisel’s light, charming novel "Grounds for Divorce", an outmatched paralegal attempts to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict in an unusual way. Emily, a dedicated underachiever who’s just been fired from an unpaid... Read More

A haunting literary fantasy novel about what four royal siblings will do to survive, "Sand to Glass" is an ominous introduction to Remy Apepp’s new fantasy series. The Great Being, bored and alone before the creation of the world, fell... Read More

Eugen Bacon’s speculative short story collection "Danged Black Thing" ignites the dreadful reverberations of sacrifice and the unflinching trajectory of choices set in motion. By embedding horror into the realm of possibilities, Bacon... Read More

A whimsical memento mori, Julia Ridley Smith’s essay collection "The Sum of Trifles" sifts through the stuff of an inheritance in search of peace. When Smith’s parents died, they left behind a home full of antiques, trinkets, and... Read More

In "The Contagion Next Time", Sandro Galea calls for improving public health—including the public’s understanding of public health—following the revelations brought about by Covid-19. The book’s overriding question is of how to... Read More