Detailed pencil and watercolor illustrations make effective use of white space in this charming picture book about caring for the natural world and all its creatures. When Efrat finds a sparrow hatchling who lost his nest to a storm, she... Read More

Small-town mysteries, generational trauma, and the supernatural collide in L. L. Madrid’s haunting novel "My Lips, Her Voice". Copper City is one of the most haunted cities in the US. Still, when Audrey’s cousin Mara is found dead in... Read More

In Luigi Pirandello’s philosophical novel "One, None, and a Hundred Grand", a personal identity crisis leads to profound explorations of the self and ego. After Vitangelo’s wife, Dida, reveals to him that his nose tilts to the right,... Read More

Worlds are constructed from tender possibilities in Theodora Goss’s alluring, unforgettable short story collection "Letters from an Imaginary Country". “You’re going to be dead in twenty-four hours. Would you like to save the... Read More

In the linked stories of Jennifer Sears’s uncompromising book "What Mennonite Girls Are Good For", sexual abuse and mental health issues beleaguer a devout family. The stories orbit Ruthie, who spends her 1970s-1980s upbringing in... Read More

A man grapples with the lingering effects of his late father’s homophobia in Ravi Teixeira’s graphic novel "Heaven, West Virginia". After his father’s death, Lamont arrives in the Appalachian town of Heaven to stay with his aunt,... Read More

Walter Marsh’s true crime caper "The Butterfly Thief" pieces together several mid-century museum thefts that shook Australia’s leading natural history institutions. In January of 1947, curators at Melbourne’s National Museum of... 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