In Steve Sem-Sandberg’s historical novel "W.", a soldier is sentenced to death for murder during the Napoleonic Wars. Always at the wrong place at the wrong time, Johann Christian Woyzeck struggles to find his place in life. Orphaned... Read More

An astounding epistolary conversation constructed in six parts, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s "Rehearsals for Living" records a dialogue between two Canadian intellectuals and activists navigating a pandemic, the... Read More

Judith Ragir dismantles collective and individual traumas in her memoir "Untangling Karma". Marrying secular and sacred life, Ragir reflects on her roles as a mother, a Buddhist priest, a repudiated Jewish woman, and a trauma survivor.... Read More

Heart Mountain, an internment camp in Wyoming, is brought to heartbreaking life in "Finding Moon Rabbit", J. C. Kato and JC²’s sensitive historical novel about surviving injustice with hope. Because of Executive Order 9066, Koko and... Read More

A modern fable and adventure story, Sam Thompson’s "Wolfstongue" follows a boy into a foxes’ underground city in order to save the last wolves from enslavement. Here, anthropomorphized animals and pen-and-ink drawings illuminate the... Read More

A companion book to Juno Dawson’s earlier This Book Is Gay, What’s the T? takes a phrase from New York City’s 1980s drag ball scene that means “What’s the truth?” and uses it to unpack the joys, difficulties, and realities... Read More

Hermann Burger’s "Brenner" is an autobiographical novel about childhood traumas and the pleasures of smoking a cigar. Hermann Arbogast Brenner is the heir to a Swiss tobacco empire who is approaching his own end. Wrapping up his... Read More

In The Comedienne’s Guide to Pride, seventeen-year-old Taylor has all the usual senior dilemmas—plus one exceptional one: she’s a lesbian comedian who hasn’t come out as a lesbian—or a comedian. Taylor’s mother, once a rising... Read More