Supernatural horrors meet frank discussions of mental health in Ethan and Naomi Sacks’s bighearted graphic novel "A Haunted Girl". After a suicide attempt and a stay in a psychiatric ward, Cleo struggles to reintegrate. She avoids her... Read More

In prose drenched with awe, Charlie J. Stephens’s tender novel "A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest" takes a child’s perspective on the pains of being poor in rural Oregon. For eight-year-old Smokey, poverty is part of the landscape, just... Read More

Challenging and exquisite, the short stories of "Domestic Affairs" demand to be met on their own terms. Daniel M. Jaffe’s charming short story collection "Domestic Affairs" depicts tender and erotic relationships between men in a... Read More

Avalanches of anxiety and poor decisions bury two reunited men in the compelling novel You Don’t Belong Here. In Jonathan Harper’s novel You Don’t Belong Here, a bisexual writer stumbles because of the ideological troubles of a... Read More