David Mura’s A Stranger’s Journey is a thoughtful, nuanced, necessary look at how the subject of race is handled in fiction, memoir, and the creative writing classroom. Mura’s book has two main goals: to explore questions of race... Read More

"Unfinished Stories of Women in Crisis" is an absorbing, moving look at the damage that injustice, inequality, and war cause to all people, but particularly to women. Rajendra Gour’s "Unfinished Stories of Women in Crisis" contains two... Read More

Timely and important, "Who Will Speak for America?" is a powerful anthology of essays, poetry, fiction, and art that grapples with our current political situation. The book’s forty writers and artists explore the question of what it... Read More

Alcy Leyva’s "And Then There Were Crows" is a funny and fast novel in which angels and demons unexpectedly invade the isolated existence of the book’s endearing and prickly protagonist, Amanda Grey. Public spaces make Grey anxious;... Read More

Jude Sierra’s "A Tiny Piece of Something Greater" is a sweet, sexy romance about learning to love while navigating the complex terrain of mental illness. Reid is twenty and looking for space. His relationship recently ended; his family... Read More

This troubling, complicated literary novel delves into the experiences of mental illness, questioning some of our most basic beliefs about what it means to be insane. "Insane" by Rainald Goetz is a complex, multivoiced, experimental look... Read More

Diane Pomerantz’s memoir "Lost in the Reflecting Pool" is an emotionally taxing read that captures the reality of living in an abusive relationship. Diane Pomerantz’s "Lost in the Reflecting Pool" is a searing memoir of a marriage... Read More

Dara Carr’s "Angela Cray Gets Real" is an entertaining, unconventional mystery that is difficult to put down. Dara Carr’s "Angela Cray Gets Real" is a mystery with a decidedly unconventional detective: Angela Cray is broke, living... Read More