"Beloved Comrades" is a moving novel about a religious community that’s formed to welcome a variety of members. In the stories of Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s novel "Beloved Comrades", a new Orthodox synagogue brings a sense of comfort and... Read More

Riley is confused when a classmate wants to know who her real father is. Maybe it’s Papa—they both have freckles and love art. But it could also be Daddy—they both have black hair and love baking cookies. A rainbow of colors... Read More

Two women are drawn together through shared, sensuous experiences of Greek food and motherhood in Georgia Kolias’s "The Feasting Virgin", a sexy novel that evokes the turmoil and pleasure of domestic life. Xeni is thirty-eight, a... Read More

In the thoughtful middle grade novel "Second Dad Summer", a boy spends his vacation with his father and his father’s boyfriend. Jeremiah likes his summers with his dad. This year, their time together includes Michael, his dad’s new... Read More

In Anna Dorn’s "Vagablonde", Prue, a Los Angeles lawyer, hopes to wean herself off of various psychotropic prescriptions. Prue is also an aspiring rapper, despite the fact that she is bourgeois and has “the coloring of a Nazi.” As... Read More

Whiting Award winner Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s poetry collection "All the Gay Saints" addresses queer love, trans bodies, and the wholeness and holiness of queer lives. Shot through with a pure, unadulterated core of love, the collection... Read More

Set in the wilds of rural Louisiana, "Stone Motel" brims with joy and pain. Morris Ardoin’s memoir is filled with snapshots of Cajun life, labyrinthine in their detail. Ardoin’s parents were blue-collar professionals who pooled their... Read More

In The Anarchists’ Club, Alex Reeve brings back his large-hearted Victorian sleuth, Leo Stanhope, a transgender man who’s swept into a loury London murder case. When a stranger’s body is found at the Social and Democratic... Read More