I Don’t Want to Be Understood
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s new collection highlights how transitioning is a way of getting off autopilot and pursuing embodiment on one’s own terms.
Reviewed by Oscar Ivins
Writing Dust: An Interview with Summer Brenner
In this new interview, Bay Area writer and activist Summer Brenner discusses her memoir Dust, which chronicles her experiences growing up in a family that kept her brother’s mental illness a secret.
Interviewed by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Tap Dancing on Everest
This new memoir by Mimi Zieman has something to offer readers of travel, nature, medicine, or science writing—as well as anyone who appreciates a real-life adventure tale.
Reviewed by Sandra Hager Eliason
The Rent Collectors
A phenomenal work of sociology and anthropology, Jesse Katz’s The Rent Collectors works its strongest magic when evoking the lives of undocumented immigrants in LA’s MacArthur Park.
Reviewed by Nic Cavell
Jonah and His Daughter
In this inventive novel, Romanian author Ioana Pârvulescu invites us to read the Old Testament fable of Jonah as something that deepens through time.
Reviewed by Rick Henry
American Precariat
The twelve editors of this essay collection offer a unique perspective as culture bearers from society’s most hidden corner.
Reviewed by Sara Dovre Wudali
Black River
Nilanjana Roy’s new novel transcends genre to deliver a study of grief and an affectionate portrait of friendship.
Reviewed by Josh Steinbauer