"High Desert Blood" covers the 1980 New Mexico prison riot and two brothers with the unfortunate luck of getting caught in the middle. After a failed arson attempt in service of his father’s insurance fraud scheme, Gary Williams... Read More

Reflecting on the significance of wild places and belonging, "In the Crosswinds" is Eli J. Knapp’s fascinating memoir about his bird-watching adventures. Challenging traditional assumptions about the wilderness, Knapp emphasizes that... Read More

Amara Moira wrestles with sex work and identity in her piercing essay collection So What If I’m a Puta. This public diary documents Moira’s decision to use sex work to embrace her identity as a travesti, a distinct cultural... Read More

Please don’t try this at home—penning fifty gothic memories in individual poems as a memoir—unless you’re comfortable being known as Father Goose, live in a tree house, write for the likes of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and... Read More

In Elisabeth Rhoads’s brooding psychological thriller "Haggard House", a sheltered religious boy meets his free-spirited match, unlocking a door to the past where trauma and truth lie hidden. It is 1859 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,... Read More

Poetry must come from somewhere that is more than the sum of family, race, education, history, culture, gender, pain, and passion. Every poet, of course, draws on as much, but why is it that so many Black women poets’ where-from place... Read More

Michel Leboeuf’s "Lost Songs of Nature" is a thought-provoking study of “acoustic ecology,” or the natural and human-made sounds of the world, that carries warnings about contemporary threats to biodiversity. Organized into five... Read More

Arie Kaplan’s bright, jargon-free volume of global folklore blends anthropology, pop culture, and a pinch of irreverence. Asserting that superstition is a universal language, the book explores themes including birth, death, and romance... Read More