Most people think of Edgar Degas as a French painter of ballerinas. But few have heard that his mother came from New Orleans or that he spent five months in that city between October 1872 and February 1873...

Silviana Wood is a legend of Chicano theatre...

Cass Raines left the Chicago Police force after a morally bankrupt cop nearly got her killed...

Ann Dávila Cardinal writes stories that thrill you. She writes about lives that face challenge and find a way through, despite the horror that chases them. She writes about Puerto Rico and trauma and belonging somewhere...

"The New Wilderness" (Harper, 2020) is a poignant portrait of a mother and daughter fleeing the polluted cities of a near-future dystopia for a hand-to-mouth existence in the country’s last undeveloped tract....

While Arthur Nakai is attending a wake for a man he considered a brother with whom he served in the U.S. Marines, he receives a call from an old friend whose sons have just been murdered...

Premee Mohamed's Beneath the Rising (Solaris, 2020) is simultaneously a far-flung horror story and an exploration of an intimate relationship....

Two south side Chicago families are bound together by a violence-infused past...

On a rocky hilltop stands Ma’aleh Hermesh C, a fledgling outpost of Jewish settlers in the West Bank...

Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America...

Chantal Bilodeau has made a name for herself a playwright singularly dedicated to writing plays about the issue of climate change...

It’s bitter winter in Chicago, and disgraced crime reporter Milo Rigg wakes up every night dreaming that his wife is calling to him from a black cage...

"ReV:" shows readers the results of a final face-off between self-replicating humanoid robots and humans...

Most modern Americans can identify the names Wallace Simpson and Gloria Vanderbilt. But Simpson was not the first divorced American to win the heart of Great Britain’s future if short-reigned King Edward VII...

The short stories in this excellent collection are inspired by recent headlines and court cases in America....

Faliveno examines a vast array of intersecting (and intersectional!) human experiences...

There are very few math books that merit the adjective ‘charming.' This is one of them.

It's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human rights, while growers get increasingly violent in trying to prevent unionization....

Francesca and Toni are brought to the orphanage when their mother suffers a breakdown and dies, and their father gets involved with a new woman...

Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place...

Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...

Lady Cecily Kay has just returned to England when she encounters Sir Barnaby Mayne. It’s 1703...

An interview with Edward A. Farmer

The Italian Renaissance introduced—or reintroduced—many valuable concepts to society and culture, giving rise eventually to our modern world...

"Beneath the Rising" combines horror, science fiction and fantasy in its portrayal of the complicated friendship of Nick and Joanna (Johnny)...