Negesti Kaudo probes her most formative experiences in her demanding essay collection "Ripe". This is an intentional collection exploring Kaudo’s discovery of herself, and her Blackness, in relation to personal and collective... Read More

Death and desire take many forms in Suzanne Roberts’s essay collection "Animal Bodies". Across three sections, two concepts rise to the fore: grief and discovery. In the immediate sense, the first section is about death, specifically... Read More

A mother’s shadow looms large in Dalia Azim’s contemplative novel "Country of Origin". Halah is on the brink of adulthood. Her only worries should be finishing school and warding off her parents’ attempts to marry her off. But... Read More

Everyone is looking for something in Reyes Ramirez’s story collection The Book of Wanderers. Across ten stories, each focal character is a wanderer in their own way. Some are searching for connection, as in “Ni Sabes, Tomás de la... Read More

The poems of Love is Not a Pie, crafted through moments of reflection and of intense emotion, serve as a reminder to the depth and breadth of love. A relationship rises and falls in stolen moments in Katherine Lazaruk’s emotional,... Read More

Xen’tarza is a thrilling space opera in which a mercenary team contends with magic and science across the wide universe. Having achieved her primary goal of securing a battleship, a freelancer, Shira of Aarda, continues her quest to... Read More

"The Unburied Queen" is a philosophical fantasy novel in which love and sacrifice are necessary for the interconnectivity of all. There is one truth that reins supreme in Capes’s fantasy novel "The Unburied Queen": the island must have... Read More

A young person invites Death to share her wisdom in Salena Godden’s ethereal novel "Mrs. Death Misses Death". Wolf is a writer trying to write about what they have known since they were nine: Death. Indeed, after impulse buying an... Read More