The heartfelt essays and poems in "Queer and Muslim" defend religion’s compatibility with queerness. Religion can be a means of liberation rather than oppression, said Imam Muhsin Hendricks, shot dead in South Africa in 2025.... Read More

Monika Fagerholm’s hard-hitting experimental novel is about the aftereffects of gang rape. During a spring break party, Nathan and three other teenage boys restrained their classmate, Sascha, in the basement and raped her. A decade... Read More

Laura B. McGrath’s "Middlemen" is a thorough, diverting investigation of the role literary agents play in the creation of book markets and reader tastes. “No figure has been more significant, and yet more invisible, in American... Read More

Told through images and passed-down memories, Marion Seidemann Fredman’s tense family memoir "A Time to Hide" is about her German Jewish parents’ flight from Nazi persecution. Fredman’s parents, Julius and Grete, met in a synagogue... Read More

In paintings and poems, Paul and Liz Norwood’s "Away to See" conveys the charm of a beloved vacation destination. The California-based Norwoods have been “summer folks” at Martha’s Vineyard for over thirty years. As popular as... Read More

In Sébastien Luc Butler’s elegant chapbook "Sky Tongued Back with Light", art and nature symbolize conflicted feelings about queerness, religion, and grief. The line “from answer to question, question / to answer” encapsulates the... Read More

Noelle Cook’s "The Conspiracists" is an in-depth, empathetic study of conspiracism, filtered through the outlook of two women involved in storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Cook ponders what draws middle-aged women, in... Read More

In Cho Haejin’s intricate, touching novel "Simple Heart", a transnational adoptee returns to Korea. Nana, an actor and playwright, grew up in South Korea. Abandoned by her mother at a train station, she lived with the conductor and at... Read More