how to get over is an ambitious collection in conversation with everything from Keats to Kanye… read more

How do you save your sister, your lover, your home and your ambition? In this brilliant debut novel, Nicole Dennis-Benn aims to present this riddle through rich prose, crackling dialogue, and the lives of three unforgettable Jamaican women… read more

That the novel is able to combine ASL culture, race, ambition, family, love, politics, and history is a marvel not to be missed… read more

My memory begins in the car, in the silence, in the song I listened to through my headphones on repeat: “Hands” by Jewel… read more

“Music writing can be very frustrating, too, but for some reason, at the end of three hours of trying to write a song, if I’m unsuccessful, it doesn’t feel quite as degrading as not being able to write a successful paragraph.”… read more

The debut memoir from Sleater Kinney member and Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl is a whip smart and compelling story that expertly blends music writing with personal revelations… read more

“It’s too bad that so many of us have a need to psychoanalyze love and destroy it in the process.”… read more

Chinelo Okparanta has written a new classic of the lesbian novel, timeless in its risk and heart, immediate in its voice for the persecuted LGBT people of Nigeria… read more

July’s talent exists in her ability to create such complex, bizarre relationships while always raising the stakes, but her carefully erected world does require a willful suspension of disbelief…. read more

“Mutchler has created a searing portrait of love in the face of death, as well as the corrosive power of secrecy.”… read more