Set in Karachi, the fourteen short stories of Farah Ali’s stunning and soulful "People Want to Live" are tales of bumpy lives steeped in poverty, bleakness, violence, and despair. The devastations within interior lives are highlighted... Read More

The two stories in "The Hypno-Ripper" focus on the Jack the Ripper legend, suggesting macabre causes behind the crimes. The brief literary collection "The Hypno-Ripper" combines two nineteenth-century stories that reconsider Jack the... Read More

"Women Hold Up Half the Sky" gathers forty stirring speeches from Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland. Arranged chronologically beginning in November of 2014, when Sturgeon took office, until February of 2020, when Scotland left... Read More

For too many people, Diné or not, Diné writing remains invisible within the greater literary landscape. The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature changes this. Its vibrant catalogue of literary works, including poems, short... Read More

Short stories about death—and what comes after—are the subject of You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife. The book includes twenty-four graphic stories from a variety of creators who draw on a wide range of cultures, styles, and... Read More

Brilliant illustrations and a powerful translation make Madame d’Aulnoy’s seventeenth-century fairy tales feel just as immediate and necessary as when they were written. D’Aulnoy’s stories have their own perspectives when it... Read More

Inviting meditation, the poems of "Elemental Natures" are disturbing and enlightening as they address contemporary American cacophonies. Lance Lee’s retrospective collection of poems, art, and an essay, "Elemental Natures", addresses... Read More

The fabulist translated Yiddish tales collected in "Honey on the Page" speak with grace to the tensions and joys of Jewish life. Both didactic and celebratory, the collection first concerns itself with stories about Jewish holidays,... Read More