Kazim Ali’s eloquent memoir "Northern Light" reports on the complicated history of a Canadian landscape and its Pimicikamak residents, who endure human-made challenges every day. Ali grew up in Jenpeg, Manitoba, a temporary town that... Read More

"The Prophet and the Warrior" is a religious novel that is fascinating for its view of what the biblical story of Moses means. Richard H. Grabmeier’s novel "The Prophet and the Warrior" is an epic retelling of the story of Moses and... Read More

Emerson Whitney’s genre-bending memoir "Heaven" is about gender, family, and memory. It is cerebral in examining social labels and expectations, as well as how selves are constructed and the stories that people tell themselves about... Read More

Anna Veltfort’s piercing graphic memoir "Goodbye, My Havana" reveals the oppression of Cuba’s citizens by the authoritarian Castro government, as witnessed and experienced by a young lesbian woman. Veltfort was a teenager in 1962... Read More