Clark Strand’s mystical treatise "Waking Up to the Dark" encourages reconsidering and preserving the entity of night amid a world of incessant brightness. The book reflects upon life prior to gas lighting and Thomas Edison’s... Read More

Practical methods for managing long-term grief are named in the memoir Siren, on Repeat, the story of an ebullient friendship cut short by death. Patti Kimball writes about losing her best friend to heart disease when both girls were... Read More

Several of the stories in Maya Sonenberg’s collection "Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters" are fairy tales. Although populated with kings and princesses and dragons and giants, these fairy tales also contain a dash of the modern. There’s a... Read More

Filled with quiet reflections, "A Life Cycle" is a lovely poetry collection that explores the depths of grief and the struggle of healing. Nicole Asherah’s "A Life Cycle" is a stirring poetry collection about grief and healing. The... Read More

The self-help text "Become Better" proposes a road map to cultivating deep, far reaching emotional intelligence. Ann Polya’s self-help book "Become Better" suggests empowering methods for increasing emotional intelligence. Polya knows... Read More

In Mariana Dimópulos’s novel "Imminence", a woman fears the resurgence of her aimless, unhappy past. Though she’s been pressured to marry, have children, and behave in subservient, restrictive ways, the narrator doesn’t fit the... Read More

Ross Wilcox’s offbeat, engaging short story collection, "Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society", cloaks the extraordinary in the ordinary. Strange circumstances abound. In the title story, suicide survivors practice their bridge jumping... Read More

Bea and Erica, who are outwardly just roommates, have a relationship that’s so intense that it bewilders Bea. First published in 1954, Dola de Jong’s novel The Tree and The Vine hums with obsessive energy as it follows the confusion... Read More