What We’re Reading

A book of nonfiction written like a novel, moving with and then past the genre of true crime

In her debut full-length poetry collection, IN KIND, Maggie Queeney interrogates how trauma is embodied and how rebirth is necessary for survival. 

Violence, King argues, is something Black men must inherit to survive even their own blood.

Oloruntoba manages to capture the uneasiness of living through the last few years’ quasi-apocalypse.

In her debut poetry collection, Courtney Faye Taylor underscores the importance of more honest witnessing, of a history that includes all the moving parts, including ourselves.

Floods and dustbowls, hopes and fears, climate fiction has it all—and isn’t going anywhere.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel stumbles in its representation of AI consciousness.

A Room Called Earth and other autistic narratives challenge the false pathological stories society tells about our neurotype.

Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au is a short-story collection about stories—how narratives can be used to construct and deconstruct lived realities.