"Drain the Marsh" mixes historical and current events with healthy dollops of fantasy for a modern and timely political satire. A playwright and a demagogue stumble along their chosen career paths in Catherine Baird’s historical comedy... Read More

Sirius Lee isn’t your stereotypical bookish Asian American dude. An outspoken and confrontational comedian, he has popular stand-up albums and appearances in Hollywood blockbusters on his résumé. But underneath the jokes, his wreck... Read More

Bob Eckstein selects cartoons whose themes are critics and criticism in the collection Everyone’s a Critic. Eckstein, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MAD Magazine, has picked a perfect topic: in the... Read More

Two men bond over sex, violence, and shared emotional and psychological trauma in Orlando Ortega-Medina’s neo noir "The Death of Baseball", about identity, sexuality, and nihilism in 1980s Los Angeles. The novel is a study of... Read More

"Imaginary Affairs" is a champagne-filled romp that navigates love and lust with abandon. In Robin Arkus’s indulgent, humorous, and dramatic romance "Imaginary Affairs", a middle-aged woman looks for love after loss. After losing two... Read More

Galen Surlak-Ramsey’s comedic "Apocalypse How?" is the thrilling, clever first entry in a series of space romps. Hapless treasure hunter Dakota has made it her mission to unlock the secrets of the Progenitors, a race of mythical,... Read More

Charming horror may sound like an oxymoron, but it is an apt description of Landis Blair’s whimsical graphic novel "The Envious Siblings". Inspired by the works of Edward Gorey, the eight macabre nursery rhymes tell tales of skeletal... Read More

Fiona Alison Duncan’s "Exquisite Mariposa" is a funny, thought-provoking novel that levels pointed critiques at gender and class inequality and captures what it’s like to be a young person today. The novel’s narrator—a woman in... Read More