Blake Scott Ball charts the impact of the classic comic strip Peanuts on American culture, and vice versa, in Charlie Brown’s America. Peanuts is a cultural icon, but even with its sly humor inspired by changes in society, such as... Read More

Barrett Swanson’s eloquent book "Lost in Summerland" combines personal essays, journalism, and travelogues into a memorable collection. The book opens with “Notes from a Last Man,” which at first seems to be an essay about spending... Read More

"Madame Livingstone" uses a World War I conflict in the Congo as the backdrop for an exciting adventure, glimpsing into the country’s history of colonial exploitation. Based on the efforts of Belgian and Congolese soldiers to drive... Read More

Antonio Gil’s graphic novel "The Flutist of Arnhem" tells the story of World War II’s Operation Market Garden, a 1944 Allied attack in the Netherlands that met with mixed results. The big successes of Allied efforts in World War II... Read More

Verse and visuals meet, with spectacular results, in the graphic anthology "Embodied". Poetry is a visual medium, not just an oral one: the placements of words and blank spaces are often intended to appeal to the eye, and they affect the... Read More

The life of seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi is recounted in the graphic novel "Artemisia". Raised by her father, an accomplished artist himself, Artemisia took to painting from a young age. At eighteen,... Read More

Intelligent hamsters fight a destructive threat to themselves and their animal friends in the fun graphic novel The Underfoot: Into the Sun. The result of human experiments in genetic modification, the Hamster Aquatic Mercenaries... Read More

"Black Star" is a fast-moving, twisting futuristic thriller about a woman-versus-woman contest of survival. Harper, a prominent and dedicated scientist, is sent with a crew to a far-off planet, Eleos, to retrieve samples of a flower with... Read More