J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...

The Glovemaker (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019) asks important questions about love and loyalty, faith and independence, the power of love and of family...

The book is a highly original novel about an unexpected yet extremely fruitful journey of a sociologist professor, Peyton Wilde. Peyton...

Meg Elison’s "The Book of Flora" trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse...

The Genuine Stories is a linked collection centered around Genevieve “Genuine” Eriksson, a woman with an uncanny ability to heal people...

Donavan examines what it is to love romantically, sexually, as a friend, and as a resident of the world...

The Limits of the World (Delphinium Books, 2019) is a rich novel about how we navigate the bonds of family, culture and religion in a world made smaller by immigration and technology...

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...

In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...

One of the key questions that The Final Retreat poses is connected with the pursuit of peace and harmony: the quest, however, is inseparable from struggles and frustrations...

Narratively arranged, these poems offer up an evocative and chilling imagining of life and times of Holmes along with his wives, victims, and accomplices...

Circe is an immortal naiad, the daughter of the Sun God, Helios...

I spoke with Andrea on the heels of her trip to India to attend the International Buddhist Conclave...

Lindsay Townsend is doing well at her high school in Wollongong, Australia...

Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...

That the Roman leader Gaius Julius Caesar is so well remembered today for his achievements as a general is largely due to his skills as a writer...

Against the backdrop of a gritty 1890’s Chicago teaming with labor problems, filthy sweatshops, and putrid stockyards, two young immigrants struggle to survive...

Since being sold into slavery as a child and working her way up to becoming concubine and mistress for several different men, Lady Juliana's survival has depended on her allure...

Henri is a middle-aged doctor, one of the few employed people left in the U.S, though the reader suspect his job might be in danger...

In most alien invasion stories, mankind and the invaders battle to the death. In Thompson’s tale, however, there is more inter- than intra-planetary conflict,..

An American in Haiti....

Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies...

Mike Chen’s debut novel Here and Now and Then (MIRA, 2019) is a portrait of patience...

Ian Graham, a British war correspondent, is chasing an escaped Nazi known only as die Jaegerin, the Huntress...