Janasha Prabhu on Queer Desire, Family and Small-Town Suspicion in Monster in the Mirror
Janasha Prabhu discusses the inspirations, family tensions and queer relationships behind her thriller Monster in the Mi...
Writing & Self-Publishing
Janasha Prabhu on Queer Desire, Family and Small-Town Suspicion in Monster in the Mirror
Janasha Prabhu discusses the inspirations, family tensions and queer relationships behind her thriller Monster in the Mi...
Glenway Wescott’s *Goodbye, Wisconsin* Finds the Unsettled Heart of Home
Belt Publishing revives Wescott’s 1928 stories of people pulled between escape and return, with Wisconsin’s farms and sm...
An Early Fall Garden Walk Offers a Pause During an Apartment Search
Between apartment viewings, an unplanned set of garden photographs preserves a long early fall walk near the sea.
Robin Stevenson’s The Book of Jupiter Follows a Girl Learning to Question Her World
In Robin Stevenson’s middle-grade novel, Ara’s loyalty to her family is tested as memories, new questions and a letter f...
Three Women-Centered Book Adaptations Put Romance and Austen on Screen
The Love Hypothesis, Verity and Sense and Sensibility bring very different books to screen—and show the promise and limi...
A Genoa Painting Finds Its Fauvist Ending in One Layer
A painter revisits a layered view of Genoa and finds that its first, color rich version held the image’s real finish.
Adam O’Fallon Price’s “Objects of Desire” Finds Comedy in Creative Disappointment
In linked stories about lonely strivers and elusive success, Adam O’Fallon Price makes even deeply flawed characters har...
Esther Yi’s To God Treats Love as an Uncompromising Ideal
In To God, Esther Yi’s strange, searching stories take love seriously, even as their dreamlike turns and uneven prose ca...
Yiyun Li on John Field, Percherette and the Hope Behind *Music Against the Night*
Yiyun Li discusses the musical world behind her new novel, its prodigious young artists and the hope Percherette finds i...
15 Sapphic Books Celebrating Love and New Beginnings After 50
From second chances to family stories, these 15 books put sapphic characters over 50 at the heart of romance, desire and...
Elise Gravel’s My Friend Fear Helps Young Readers Meet Their Feelings
Elise Gravel’s October 2026 picture book uses friendly monsters to help children name fear, appreciate its protective ro...
A Genoa Portrait Becomes a Lesson in Looking at Paintings
A return to a Genoa portrait, after a detour into flower drawing, turns a playful art experiment into a reflection on lo...
Cleo Coyle’s The Ghost and the Dead Librarian Opens a New Haunted Bookshop Mystery
A Rhode Island bookseller and a witty 1940s detective ghost investigate a librarian’s death in Cleo Coyle’s cozy paranor...
Sonora Jha’s *Foreign* Finds Its Heart in the Lives of Rural Indian Farmers
Sonora Jha’s debut novel centers farmers’ struggles with empathy, though its family story and supporting characters feel...
Bonnie Jo Campbell on Family, Memory and The Spirits
Bonnie Jo Campbell discusses the haunted Christmas dinner at the heart of The Spirits, its Dickensian roots and the Whit...
Teresa Robeson’s Animals of the Chinese Zodiac Brings Twelve Signs to Young Readers
Teresa Robeson and Ping Zhu introduce children ages 6–9 to the Chinese Zodiac through twelve animal portraits and a pers...
A Genoa Art Project Pauses for One More Flower Drawing
The artist planned a third image in a large Genoa series, then found themself working on a flower instead.
Maya McKibbin on Illustrating Makade Asin / Black Stone and Creating a Graphic Novel
Maya McKibbin discusses the visual choices behind Makade Asin / Black Stone and shares plans for a young adult graphic n...
Midnight Manor Turns Bedtime into a Playful Halloween Adventure
Sid Sharp’s picture book follows witches, goblins and other residents through a topsy-turvy night of familiar routines a...
Rex Ogle’s ABSENT Uses Three Voices to Explore Middle-Grade School Absences
Rex Ogle’s ABSENT follows three boys whose different struggles keep them out of class, using lyrics, cartoons and journa...