“Syr Hayati Beker’s gleaming novella What a Fish Looks Like alchemizes confessional notes and remixed fairy tales to tell a story of queer survival amid ecological disaster. … passed notes, party invitations, and other ephemera... Read More

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This / Eugene Yelchin / Candlewick / Hardcover $22.99 (432pp) / 978-1-5362-1553-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / An artist seeks freedom from oppressive Russian authorities in Eugene... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews sid sibo, Author of The Scent of Distant Family / Pockets of the northwestern United States have long experienced infiltrations of wealthy city folk seeking solitude, unpressured trout rivers,... Read More

A writer we’ve long adored is back with an enchanting history of apples—and while Priyanka Kumar doesn’t quite cover all 16,000 known apple varieties in The Light Between Apple Trees, you will be hard pressed to keep from rewilding... Read More

Other People’s Mothers / Julie Marie Wade / University Press of Florida / Softcover $28.00 (182pp) / 978-0-8130-8114-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is... Read More

Reviewer Jennifer Maveety Interviews Patty Krawec, Author of Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds / Bad Indians don’t play along when you expect them to think and act in a certain way. Bad Indians refuse to... Read More

Reviewer Danielle Ballantyne Interviews Katie Wray Schon, Author of Painting Wonder: How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien / Most every storybook author strives to fire up the imaginations of... Read More

Arty the Aardvark Is Counting on His Lunch / EB Mackie / CK Mackie, illustrator / World Changers Press / Hardcover $21.99 (28pp) / 979-899033604-9 / The bright colors and bold patterns and brushstrokes of abstract art bring added... Read More