Featuring Gina N. Brown, Jules Torti, Lisa de Nikolits, and Alice Fitzpatrick Gina N. Brown, author of Pickled in Love (NovaHeart, Sep 2025) Pickled in Love was a TMR Best Book of 2025! In early 2025, the world felt chaotic. Friends were anxious and urged me to write something relatable, light-hearted and distracting. I thought …
Featuring Chelsea Humphries, Jenny Berkel, Edie Reaney Chunn, and Jordan Redekop-Jones Chelsea Humphries, author of Flower Language Flower Language emerged, in part, from my fascination with the Victorian age and my love of secret codes and hidden meanings. Floriography is the language of flowers, popularized by the Victorians in the nineteenth century. It ascribes significance …
Thinking From Black is an animated collection that illuminates, interrogates, and grabs hold of what Blackness means from as many angles as humanity, history, and artistry allow. Initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, whose members span the US, Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, and Africa, this fierce book is as much about creativity as it is about the political realities and ethical practices of being Black at a time when anti-Black violence is resurging in terrifying ways. A reference book, a glossary, and an inventive vocabulary that …
Featuring Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Jo-Ann Roberts, Jacqueline Halsey, and Marjorie Simmins
Written by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by Jackie Morris, The Book of Birds is the spiritual successor to their project The Lost Words.
Once a family experiences a wholly destabilizing trauma, and is fractured—how does it heal or reform in the proceeding years, and is this recovery ever sufficient?
Go-Between Girl, by Andrea Gunraj, is a memoir told across a collection of essays that examines what it means to be the descendent of the racialized indentured class.
With her debut collection There’s Always More to Say, Natalie Southworth demonstrates that she not only understands the skills necessary to write powerful short stories, she has no shortage of them.
In recent years there has been a wealth of Argentinian horror collections from writers such as Mariana Enríquez, Samanta Schweblin, Augustina Bazterrica, as well as the anthology Through the Night Like a Snake. Added to their ranks is Tomás Downey, author of the taut and frightening Diving Board, wonderfully translated by Sarah Moses.
Gadsby has become a diviner of sorts, and her stories a clarion call.
The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery touches upon mothering, sexual identity, family dynamics and voice.
The novel is set in 2015-2016, a time when Israeli forces began restricting access to Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. Aziz, a young man at odds with his father, witnesses, alongside his friend Mustafa, the murder of their friend Hassan at the hands of an Israeli soldier.
The 16th annual World Read Aloud Day is Wednesday, February 4th. It is a day that highlights the importance of sharing stories and reading them aloud.
Have you ever read a book that feels like looking into a mirror—one that reflects the parts of yourself you’ve buried while offering the comfort of a quiet, steady it’s not your fault?
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