A woman with a traumatic past seeks self-acceptance in the afterlife in the fantastical allegorical novel "Déjà Vu". While traveling through the Underworld, a woman remembers her trauma and fights for acceptance in Niki’s fantasy... Read More

Hubert’s grand graphic biography "Joe the Pirate" profiles a rich, eccentric figure known for her colorful life. Marion Carstairs, later known as “Joe,” was born into a wealthy but dysfunctional family. Sent to boarding school, she... Read More

Shifting cultural messages about masculinity and sexuality filter into a man’s daily life in the musing historical novel "Who Will Cliff Date?" David A. Robinson’s wry novel "Who Will Cliff Date?" is about sexuality, identity, and... Read More

The revealing memoir "The Set Up" is about overcoming adversity through religion, connections, and personal strength. Carl Edward Jackson’s candid memoir "The Set Up" is about his tumultuous adulthood in the South. When Jackson was... Read More

"Lessons in Drag" started as a performance by LaWhore Vagistan, the drag persona of academic Kareem Khubchandani. In it, she stages Khubchandani’s ethnographic research into accents, aunties, appropriation, and other topics connected... Read More

Mireille Best’s multifaceted novel "Hymn to Moray Eels" is about queer attraction, social expectations, and the intricacies of women’s friendships in 1950s France. Adolescence made sixteen-year-old Mila feel exposed and vulnerable.... Read More

On the lighter side of melancholy, "Protocol Heresy" is a near-future novel about the damage done when people are left to mourn alone. C. J. Loveman’s affecting science fiction novella "Protocol Heresy" is about the psychological... Read More

Mysterious out-of-towners help a mourning young woman embrace her inner adventurer in "The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace", Megan Okonsky’s joyous novel about coming out and coming of age. Pinky, who was boxed into returning... Read More