Jennifer Newens’s tiki cocktail guide "Thursday Night Tiki Lounge" includes drinks that are sweet, sour, strong, sometimes spicy, and mostly rum-based alongside gorgeous photographs. The book begins with a short history of tiki’s... Read More

Lars Svendsen’s wry philosophical text treats stupidity as a persistent human condition that’s shaped by knowledge, belief, and social context. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and cultural observation, the book explores how... 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

The strange and surreal take center stage in Kristen Gleason’s beguiling short story collection "The Wallet and Other Thefts". The characters are often confused or detached, estranged observers of garden workers or weddings. In “The... Read More

The road to peace and love is paved with poise and self-discovery in Juda Bennett’s coming-of-New-Age memoir "Qtopia". Bennett was expected and encouraged by his nuclear family parents to join the military upon his high school... Read More

"My World Is Melting" is Line Nagell Ylvisåker’s enlightening essay collection about climate change as observed on a small Norwegian island in the fastest-warming region on the planet. Ylvisåker reports that temperatures near... Read More

A lonely man at a remote moon outpost witnesses a catastrophe in Karl Slominski’s introspective graphic novel "The Last Watchtower". Cal Ferris has manned his post on the moon for sixteen years, alone except for Blip, the AI robot that... Read More

A boy adopts a strange creature in Zidrou’s stunning graphic novel "The Beast". Francois and his mother Jeanne live in Belgium, where they face ridicule and mistrust: Francois’s father was a German soldier who returned home after... Read More