Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets / Alex T. Smith / Peachtree Publishing Company / Hardcover $16.95 (288pp) / 978-1-68263-130-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / When hundreds of hamsters go missing, only a penguin, a ninja... Read More

Out in Time / The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation / Perry N. Halkitis / Oxford University Press / Hardcover $34.95 (192pp) / 978-0-19-068660-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / The experience of... Read More

Lord / João Gilberto Noll / Edgar Garbelotto, translator / Two Lines Press / Softcover $12.95 (120pp) / 978-1-931883-79-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / João Gilberto Noll’s Lord opens with a cryptic quote from Iain... Read More

Mama never said there’d be debuts like this. We see lots of books in these offices—indie publishers and authors send us more than ten thousand a year seeking a review—and we’ll admit that we have some particular quirks about the... Read More

A Fistful of Stars / Communing with the Cosmos / Gail Collins-Ranadive / Milt Hetrick, contributor / Little Bound Books / Softcover $12.95 (84pp) / 978-1-947003-97-2 / In the center of each cottonwood twig there is a perfect... Read More

Sommelier of Deformity / Nick Yetto / Turner / Softcover $17.99 (352pp) / 978-1-68442-144-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Intensely dark and sardonic, Sommelier of Deformity is also, paradoxically, an uplifting and redemptive... Read More

Dancing on Thin Ice / Travails of a Russian Dissenter / Arkady Polishchuk / DoppelHouse Press / Hardcover $29.95 (352pp) / 978-0-9987770-3-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Dancing on Thin Ice, Arkady Polishchuk’s memoir of... Read More

Strawberry Fields / Hilary Plum / Fence Books / Softcover $15.99 (224pp) / 978-1-944380-03-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Hilary Plum’s Strawberry Fields, myriad memorable protagonists report on tragedies from hotspots... Read More