The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his... Read More

Giving life to the incidental, the forgotten, and the ignored, "The Shadow of the Mammoth", Fabio Morábito’s collection of eighteen distinctive, heartbreaking, and quirky tales, skews the intricacies of existence and compassion... Read More

In Austyn Wohlers’s emotive novel "Hothouse Bloom", a woman steps away from human interactions to draw closer to nature, seeking healing. Anna, a painter, inherits her grandfather’s orchard. Although it is a foreign space to her, she... Read More

The life and career of a prominent business and political figure is depicted in the graphic biography Elon Musk: American Oligarch. Elon Musk was born in South Africa, where his father and mother, Errol and Maye, had a relationship... Read More

Nina Bargiel’s wild, magical self-help guide "The Crone Zone" is about embracing aging and accessing elder wisdom. About the life-changing benefits and joys of claiming cronehood and its “permission slip” to jettison society’s... Read More

Brian Jones’s stirring essay collection blends memoir, scholarship, and political analysis to argue that Black history is a lens for better seeing the world. In the Midwestern classrooms of his youth, Jones found that Blackness was... Read More

Part manifesto, part guidebook, Rob Hopkins’s "How to Fall in Love with the Future" argues that in order to change the world, people must begin with their imaginations. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, and narrative storytelling,... Read More

Struggling with tragedy, fear, and uncertainty, the characters of Erin Cecilia Thomas’s entrancing, woman-centered short story collection "I Watched You from the Ocean Floor" find hope through human connection and resilience. Easing... Read More