The heavens light up in Emily Seyl and Paul Ziomek’s photographic history "Trinity", which presents the testing of the first atomic bomb in a way heretofore unknown. In 1945, the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki astonished... Read More

Nadine Takvorian’s devastating and important graphic memoir "Armaveni" unpacks the generational traumas left by the Armenian genocide. A teenager in 2001, Nadine is desperate to learn about her family’s time in the Ottoman Empire.... Read More

In Irene Clyde’s classic science fiction novel "Beatrice the Sixteenth", an explorer experiences a head injury and wakes in a different world. After a camel kick to the head, Mary is picked up by traveling merchants. Though she’s... Read More

A connection based on mutual respect, affirmation, and help allows a neglected wife and mother to blossom at summer camp in the breezy romance novel "Summer Husband". A housewife follows her children to sleepaway camp in Amy Lorowitz’s... Read More

An elder shares her story in Chi Zijian’s reflective novel "The Last Quarter of the Moon". An unnamed Evenki woman laments the loss represented by her home’s emptiness. Her family voted to leave their mountains; modernization... Read More