Behind Closed Doors
The Sicilian writer Maria Messina's captivating and brutal stories of the women of her home island are presented in an English translation by Elise Magistro. Messina, who died in 1944,…
The Book-Makers
A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By Cory Doctorow
Antelope Woman
by Louise Erdrich
Art & Courage: A Guide to Sustaining a Creative Path
Since its release in 1993, Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland has become an underground classic helping artists across various disciplines persevere through uncertainty and self-doubt and…
How We Read: A Graphic Guide to Literacy
How do comics support literacy? For many, learning to read can be a struggle. What are the five keys to learning? How does the brain learn how to sound out…
My Mom Had an Abortion
My Mom Had an Abortion is a unique coming-of-age tale told by a self-described dyslexic-asexual-lesbian-feminist teenager and illustrated by body-positive comic artist Tatiana Gill. We follow our protagonist Beezus B.…
What We’re Reading
After we finished up The Power Broker, a bunch of people were asking us what other books we’d been reading. A group of us got together and presented some of…
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
by Paula Byrne
Mermaids (novel)
a 1986 coming-of-age novel by American writer Patty Dann