In Franziska Gänsler’s moving novel "Eternal Summer", a woman in distress and her daughter arrive at a quiet German hotel, finding unexpected companionship with the hotel owner. Horrific wildfires and heatwaves mark the setting... Read More

In the eighteen tales comprising Josh Denslow’s enjoyable short story collection "Magic Can’t Save Us", creatures including zombies, mermaids, and dragons make their presences felt by forcing the humans around them into difficult... Read More

First published in 1962, Edith Bruck’s masterful short story collection "This Darkness Will Never End" bears witness to the atrocities of World War II and the lives of those affected by the Holocaust. Hungarian-born Bruck was liberated... Read More

Ira Wells’s searing political science text "On Book Banning" examines the origins and impact of literary censorship. The book builds upon the ideals of liberal democracy and identifies literary censorship as a threat to intellectual... Read More

Two friends deal with the loss of their former bandmate in Magnus Merklin’s moving graphic novel "DiSCONNECT". After forming their band in high school, three twenty-year-old friends look forward to the future. But one dies, and a year... Read More

A singular window into the horror of life in Nazi Germany, Charlotte Beradt’s anthropological study addresses the dreams that she and her fellow German citizens began having after Adolf Hitler came to power. A haunting approach to the... Read More

Lyrical and alarming, Elisa Levi’s fabulistic novella That’s All I Know unveils a small town’s ominous goings-on. Little Lea lives with her disabled sister and her mother in a minuscule town on the edge of a forest. The residents... Read More

Lindsay Merbaum’s funny horror novella "Vampires at Sea" follows the challenges a vampire couple’s relationship faces on a queer, sex-filled vacation cruise. Rebekah and Hugh are vampires who have been together for as long as they... Read More