In Anita Felicelli’s stunning short story collection "How We Know Our Time Travelers", technology and the supernatural are rival routes to understanding time, loss, and memory. These speculative stories are set in California in the... Read More

A disgraced writer fails to confront or acknowledge his crimes in Tova Reich’s discomfiting novel "Camp Jeff". Jeffrey Epstein (not that one) founded Camp Jeff to rehabilitate people like Gershon, a high-profile author brought down by... Read More

The fresh, informative essays collected in "Sex Work Today" concern challenges faced by those engaging in modern erotic labor. According to the authors in this collection, the stigma and stereotypes surrounding erotic labor often obscure... Read More

Delicate details and joyful colors vivify this Persian folktale. From a castle made of snow atop the highest mountain, Naneh Sarma spreads winter across the land; her icy isolation grows lonely. From beyond the edge of winter, she hears... Read More

Jessie van Eerden’s glittering essay collection Yoke & Feather is a work of exquisite longing marked by keen reflections on biblical tales. Beginning after van Eerden’s divorce, these intimate essays trouble through relationship... Read More

The rhyming text and bright, contrasting watercolor illustrations enliven this holiday picture book about being brave. It’s the first night of Hanukkah and Uri’s father is not yet home; as the winter night marches toward them, Uri... Read More

"The Diapause", Andrew Forbes’s speculative fiction treatise on a postplague world, is both a grim look at the dark side of survivalist psychosis and a heartbreaking love letter to the disappearing worlds around us. Gabe is an only... Read More

Tim Z. Hernandez’s "They Call You Back" expands upon his prior documentary novel All They Will Call You, about the deaths of twenty-eight Mexican nationals in a California plane crash. In January of 1948, a plane carrying Mexican... Read More