In Jordana Globerman’s ambitious graphic novel "Soul Machine", a girl tries to protect a family business that supplies souls. After the disappearance of their father, Chloe and Lacey continue the family trade, spinning souls from a... Read More

Airman Dylan Park-Pettiford’s powerful memoir "Roadside" chronicles his Iraq War deployment and hard times back home. Half Black, half Korean, Park-Pettiford often felt like an outsider in Oakland. He enlisted in the air force after... Read More

Ira Wells’s searing political science text "On Book Banning" examines the origins and impact of literary censorship. The book builds upon the ideals of liberal democracy and identifies literary censorship as a threat to intellectual... Read More

De Kai’s urgent book "Raising AI" reflects the ethical impacts of the Artificial Intelligence industry and moral quandaries raised by its influence on public and private life. Drawing an analogy between artificial intelligences... Read More

In his rollicking essay collection "Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds", Charles Hood reckons with the ocean’s simultaneous allure and risk through stories of seabird-watching and of his father’s wartime service in the Pacific Theater.... Read More

With Eleanor Roosevelt as its guide, this warm picture book provides a primer on allyship. Eleanor wants to be more like her namesake, but situations often feel too big for her to change. When her teacher splits the class into girls and... Read More

Paul Martineau and Ryan Linkof’s evocative photographic history "Queer Lens" chronicles queer representation in the medium. Arguing that representation is instrumental to visibility, this book says that photography “queered” the... Read More

Quino’s wonderful comics collection "Mafalda" centers on a six-year-old girl, her family, and her friends. "Mafalda" ran in Argentina from 1964 to 1973 and was beloved. In addition to its heroine, it features Manolito, a shopkeeper’s... Read More