Shifting between Nigeria and the US, Olufunke Grace Bankole’s novel "The Edge of Water" is about the separation and reunion of mothers and daughters. Esther details her experience of motherhood through letters to her daughter Amina,... Read More

A decision made in haste reverberates across multiple kingdoms in Patricia A. McKillip’s lush fantasy classic "The Book of Atrix Wolfe". Blackmailed to betray the ethics of his practice, an enraged mage calls up violent forces to end a... Read More

"Any Body Can Heal" is a powerful memoir about turmoil and growth. A moving memoir about overcoming trauma, psychotherapist Sara Davidson’s "Any Body Can Heal" deals with the aftermath of multiple traumatic experiences in an... Read More

For queer Latinx Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, raised in El Paso by Mexican immigrants, piecing together a suitable cloak of masculinity is as much about survival as it is identity. His brother’s detainment and deportation serves as a... Read More

Justice is out of the purview of poetry, unfortunately. Otherwise, the ancestors of the ninety-six Lenapes killed by rogue Pennsylvania militia men in 1782 might read this collection and find some much deserved peace. That Denise Low... Read More

An enigmatic discovery is the impetus for a faltering man to rethink an old friendship and a recent, raw breakup in the sinuous, surprising novel "Masquerade". Once, Meadow planned to become a doctor in the humanities; now, he works at a... 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 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