Midwestern magic abounds in Scott Russell Sanders’s fairy tale short story collection "Small Marvels". In Limestone, Indiana, Gordon Mills is a jack of all trades whose big family lives in a dilapidated house that only remains standing... Read More

In Tiffany Meuret’s contemporary fantasy novel "Little Bird", a divorced woman encounters magic beyond her comprehension, shaking up her messy life and forcing her to assess her priorities, as well as the meanings of life and death.... Read More

Sociologist Gillian Ranson’s "Front-Wave Boomers" concerns what’s facing those on the verge of “(very) old age.” Interrogating the concerns of baby boomers—a group brimming with vivacity and ideals, even as they face the... Read More

Michael G. Long and Shea Tuttle’s biography of Phyllis Frye captures her struggle to challenge entrenched beliefs on gender and identity. Assigned male at birth, Frye seemed like a typical high achiever: she was an Eagle Scout, a... Read More

George Uba’s memoir Water Thicker Than Blood reflects upon the personal and cultural intricacies of Japanese American life, before and after World War II. Following the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt ordered all US... Read More

The essays of Raquel Gutiérrez’s "Brown Neon" mix personal writing with cultural history and criticism to explore race, gender, migration, and art in the southwestern US during the 45th presidency. “On Making Butch Family: An... Read More

The line between figurative and literal beasts is blurred in the inventive stories of Sam J. Miller’s Boys, Beasts & Men. The book’s conjured funhouse worlds are both familiar and alien. Small-town family tensions are exacerbated... Read More

Through her lyrical memoir "This or Something Better", Elisa Stancil Levine revisits painful events from her past and endeavors to become more empathetic. Levine’s story of resilience is framed by an account of a fire in California... Read More