Book Review
Dr. Sad
David Bateman’s semiautobiographical novel "Dr. Sad" follows a physician through the minutiae of daily life for six months after his HIV diagnosis, creating a “song of himself, lacking in strict continuity, filled with flights of...
Book Review
Supersex
The insightful essays of "Supersex" comment on the omnipresence—and official absence—of superheroes’ sexuality. This collection acknowledges that comics have been a site of moral panic for generations. The superhero genre, in...
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Dear DeeDee
An elliptical novel that integrates the death of a lineage into a reflection on personal mortality, Kat Meads’s "Dear DeeDee" recasts the unresolved stories of a Southern paternal line. Rooted in North Carolina, the Meads family line...
Book Review
The Arctic Fury
In 1854, Virginia Reeve stands in front of a Boston court, accused of the kidnapping and murder of wealthy socialite, Caprice Collins. Reeve, the leader of an all women’s expedition to the Arctic, juggles what to withhold and what to...
Book Review
Vegan with Bite
Direct, brash, and ribald, Australian chef Shannon Martinez is food’s punk rock aunt, unfussy and enviably hip. Her latest cookbook, Vegan With Bite, is a discursive, personal romp that emphasizes food for “eaties,” not...
Book Review
The Temple Tree
"The Temple Tree" is an inspirational fable about the many ways that people move through the world and about the difficult work of cultivating inner peace during moments of loss and self-doubt. Sidney Snow’s gentle teaching fable, The...
Book Review
Blazewrath Games
“The world you know is a lie … The world that’s coming, that’s the one you should believe in.” So says a Dragon Knight who serves the Sire, a dragon-turned-human who’s targeting the Blazewrath World Cup. But this year,...
Book Review
All the Acorns on the Forest Floor
Kim Hooper’s "All the Acorns on the Forest Floor" is a novel profligate in its pursuit of an idea: motherhood. As an organizing principle, motherhood is constructed across a series of chapter-long vignettes. Like the Fleetwood Mac song...