Cookie loves cookies, especially the cookies from the Cookie Cubby. But when the owner’s Pride Month offering leaves a sour taste in some community members’ mouths, Cookie rallies friends and neighbors into a sweet show of support in... Read More

Riad Sattouf’s exceptional graphic memoir "The End of the Arab of the Future" is about when his brother went missing. In 1992, Sattouf was fourteen years old. His father kidnapped his younger brother, Fadi, and took him to Syria.... Read More

Centering an Armenian boy, N. T. McQueen’s outstanding historical novel "Never Hide from the Devil" roils around a genocide, as Turkish forces surround the city of Van. Most of the story takes place over one month in 1915, when the... Read More

About home and migration in the face of displacement, Elin Anna Labba’s haunting, elegant novel "The Home of the Drowned" memorializes indigenous Sámi culture in Lapland. Three Sámi women—Iŋgá; her mother, Rávdná; and her Aunt... Read More

A woman recounts the complicated history of her hair in Lou Lubie’s fascinating graphic novel "The Roots of My Hair". On Reunion Island, near Madagascar, Rose lives among people from a number of ethnic backgrounds. Still, she never... Read More

In Claire Fuller’s haunting thriller "Hunger and Thirst", a teenager’s isolation in a decrepit, abandoned house coincides with a grisly murder. In the summer of 1987, sixteen-year-old Ursula moves from foster homes and a halfway... Read More

Douglas Stuart’s ruminative novel "John of John" breaks through the surface of a dysfunctional family to expose deeper ties and shocking secrets. After years of experimentation in his big-city art school, Cal returns to his... Read More

A harrowing memoir about artistic integrity under state repression, "The Village on the Edge of the World" collects Nobel Prize-winning novelist Herta Müller’s reflections on growing into her vocation during the socialist dictatorship... Read More