Opera singer Fides Krucker’s book is both a moving artistic memoir and a radical self-help work, presenting a method of freeing one’s authentic voice to reclaim power, agency, and self-worth. A feminist call to action, the book... Read More

William Sheehan and Sanjay Shridhar Limaye’s "Venus" is a comprehensive introduction to historical and current research into Venus, as well as its representations in popular culture. Apart from the Moon, Venus is the brightest object... Read More

Sara El Sayed’s heartwarming, humorous memoir "Muddy People" concerns her life growing up in an Egyptian Muslim family in Australia. El Sayed’s childhood was both messy and marked by feelings of being “other.” When she was a... Read More

The discerning, masterful short stories in Morgan Talty’s "Night of the Living Rez" follow a Native community in Maine with power and precision. David, a Penobscot boy who grows up in a dysfunctional family on an isolated island... Read More

In David Musgrave’s fascinating novel "Lambda", a woman is enmeshed in conflicts between surveillance police, a synthetic person, and genetically human Lambdas. “A lambda function is a small anonymous function”: this computer... Read More

Written from a womanist liberation perspective, Psyche A. Williams-Forson’s "Eating While Black" calls a cease and desist on policing Black Americans’ food choices and habits. Unpacking the ugly history of racist stereotypes,... Read More

Lisa Moore’s novel "This Is How We Love" is an intimate and complex exploration of relationships—and of what it means to be entangled by the demands of love. Jules and her husband, Joe, are in Mexico when their phones ring,... Read More

In Dung Kai-cheung’s collection of short stories "A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On", material objects become like talismans that affect the flow of life. These ninety-nine stories were first published in 1999, soon after... Read More