The discovery of an alien communication changes a family’s trajectory in Alexandra Oliva’s rich speculative novel "The Radiant Dark". When scientists announce that a repeating light pattern is a message from extraterrestrials, Carol... Read More

Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about memory, grief, home, and belonging. The hybrid essays combine poetry, stream-of-consciousness prose, scraps of dialogue, lists of... Read More

Laura B. McGrath’s "Middlemen" is a thorough, diverting investigation of the role literary agents play in the creation of book markets and reader tastes. “No figure has been more significant, and yet more invisible, in American... Read More

Though dismissed by the adults around her, Frida, an aspiring detective, is on the case of the Jibberjack, a monster terrorizing the town of Rumorridge. Trampled tulips, muddy slides, and missing pigs are all blamed on the menacing... Read More

The brave, probing essays in Anna Badkhen’s "To See Beyond" address global issues including climate change, economic inequality, immigration, colonization, and genocide. The twenty-three essays in this collection cover a vast physical... Read More

In Keila Vall de la Ville’s incisive novel "Minerva", an aspiring Venezuelan dancer contemplates her artistic future and unusual family background. Minerva is raised in an unconventional manner: by her mother and two fathers in... Read More