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BARRACOONAmong her many accomplishments, Hurston was a trained anthropologist, and one of her works of scholarship—based on interviews conducted in the...
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ELIJAH'S EASTER SUITElijah, a young Black child, attends Third Avenue Church, where the two rules of Easter are “show up” and “look good.” Last year, Mother Green’s...
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THREADSIt’s 1932, and Communists are going door to door collecting extra taxes and grain. Zlata’s mama starts hiding food, and Papa buries bags of...
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GET ME CARLUCCIIn 1930, Frank Carlucci III was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His family was widely known in the area due to his grandfather’s sterling...
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NO ONE CAN KNOWEmma has just discovered she’s pregnant when she’s also faced with an astonishing financial deception on the part of her husband, Nathan. Since...
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BROUGHTUPSYTwice during her bumpy attempt to reacquaint herself with the city of her birth, Akúa is accused of having no “broughtupsy”—manners. “ ‘Yuh see...
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MARTYR!Poet Akbar's debut in fiction features Cyrus Shams, a child of the Midwest and of the Middle East. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother, Roya, a...
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NOT DEAD ENOUGHAfter Charlotte’s boyfriend, Jerry, dies in a car accident the night of prom, everyone around her assumes she must be heartbroken and wants to...
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THE RACC PACKOn the streets of Toronto, Dusty, ReRe, and Scraps eke out a meager existence night to night, scavenging for scraps where they can get them. The...
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EASTER BASKET MURDERMeier’s title story reminds you that egg hunts are not just for kids. When the Tinker’s Cove Chamber of Commerce sponsors a raffle offering...
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THE MAKING OF A KINGHardman, the well-known chronicler of the House of Windsor ( Queen of Our Times , Her Majesty , etc.), predictably opens with a review of Queen...
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WITCHCRAFTA professor of “Renaissance and Magical Literatures” at the University of Exeter and author of multiple academic books about witchcraft, Gibson...
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SHERIDAN'S SECRET MISSIONPhilip Sheridan (1831-1888), writes Cwiklik, was no icon of civil rights: “He shared most of the prejudices against black people harbored by...
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KARMIC SELLING“Before the crash, I was sometimes your stereotypical corporate jerk,” writes the author, a former operations leader at GE, Honeywell, and other...
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THE MANCHINEELElyse Santiago is a beautiful young woman with a traumatic past. Having killed the man who sexually abused her by feeding him toxic sap from the...
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OUR MOONScience and nature journalist Boyle opens in 1943 with the Marine invasion of the Japanese-held island of Tarawa. Planners expected high tide to...
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PEPPER & MEIn a straightforward, childlike voice accompanied by charmingly naïve mixed-media illustrations, a pale-skinned narrator with long red hair...
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EVERYWHERE BEAUTY IS HARLEMRoy DeCarava (1919-2009) gets off work, and now his “time is his own.” He loads a roll of film in his camera and pays attention to what he sees...
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DEADLY TO THE COREStill mourning the loss of her husband and healing from the car crash that took Brian’s life, Kate Mulligan is ready to turn the page. So when...
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LIBRARY FOR THE WAR-WOUNDEDAustrian writer Helfer explores the life of her father, Josef, in this work of autofiction. The child of a single mother—a maid in the household...
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TIME TO MAKE ARTAs a brown-skinned young protagonist, sporting cornrows and a lavender beret, ponders the nature of creativity, palette and brush in hand,...
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EMILY WILDE'S MAP OF THE OTHERLANDSEmily Wilde has refused the marriage proposal of her former academic rival, Wendell Bambleby, because she would be mad to marry a deposed faerie...
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KINDLINGHere’s a treat for readers who wish each fable launched by the words “Once upon a time” would segue into a cautionary tale punctuated with...
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THE SURVIVORS OF THE CLOTILDAOf the 10.7 million Africans displaced to the Americas between the 16th and late 19th centuries, 103 landed in Alabama in July 1860 on the...
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TREE OF LIFEIt’s winter in Terezin, the Czechoslovakian propaganda camp with which the Nazis tricked the credulous Red Cross into believing their treatment...
