Review

As of 2013, when it hit theaters, Frozen was the most trans movie ever. At least so it seemed to many trans girls (it...

On-screen, frustration gets played for laughs. A lot. It usually has a few tropey midwives: the well-meaning, yet incompetent boss; the noble loser, likely...

Emily Maloney was misdiagnosed for years before a suicide attempt buried her in medical debt. She labored to pay off a staggering five-figure sum...

William Gass is a master of the English language. His prose is smooth and muscular: at once honey dripping off a hot tin roof,...

Heartbreaking and haunting, How Fires End is a powerful novel that explores devastating family secrets - who keeps them and why, how and when they will someday be revealed, and whether they can or will ever be forgiven. Part war story, part family history, it is a beautiful tale of multi-generational love, loss, grief, and hope.

Crock-Pots, car washes, Big Dog, Predator drones. In questions of love and war, whom do we trust, ourselves or the machines we’ve built to...

Dvorak’s Prophecy: And the Vexing Fate of Black Classical Music by Joseph Horowitz (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) is a clarion call to action...

Dimitris Lyacos:  Poena Damni: I: Z213: Exit; II: With the People from the Bridge; III: The First Death Translated from the original Greek by Shorsha...

Why the Story of a Waitress in the South Resonated with a Brit in London March 23rd 2020 is a date etched in my brain....

Injun, by Jordan Abel. Talonbooks, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. $16.95 (Canada/U.S.) The atrocities inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the Americas through the centuries are well-documented...