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Sex is Not Character Growth

Rachel Reid has a heated rivalry with good narrative pacing

Paradoxical Healing

‘Octavia’s Brood’ Chapter Review: ‘Children Who Fly’ by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Finding Strength in a Big World

'Octavia’s Brood' Chapter Review: Tunde Olaniran’s ‘Little Brown Mouse’

Decolonize Your Bookshelf

Spend Thanksgiving with 3 reads by Indigenous authors.

Book Review: The Spear Cuts Through Water

How Simon Jimenez's fantasy novel expertly traverses corruption and love in five book-long days

‘It Ends With Us’ is a Fanfiction Take on Domestic Violence

But are the conversations the novel sparks enough to give Colleen Hoover a pass?

Five Hours is Forever

Jordan Crane’s graphic novel mixes the mundane and the miserable to make magic.

Book Review: “Trust” by Hernan Diaz

Myle Yan Tay explores and praises Diaz's experimental forms and important philosophies regarding the difference between trust and the truth.

Book Review: Flung Out of Space

How Patricia Highsmith's complicated legacy is explored through comics.

Book Review: Normal People

What is it about Sally Rooney’s “Normal People?”

Book Review: “Fairy Tales”

Petra Collins and Alexa Demie invite readers into their Avant Garden.

Book Review: “The Secret Listener”

With a literary voice tuned to the unique melody of bilingual fluency, Yuan-Tsung Chen memoir tracks the upheaval of mid-century China.

Book Review: “Power On”

Ginger Ko unlades the reality of the relationship between the tool and the senses.

Book Review: Glyph: Graphic Poetry = Trans. Sensory

In her new work, Naoko Fujimoto uses fragments to capture the feeling of memory.