Category: Books

Six Nations’ lacrosse star-turned author Delby Powless’ Medicine Game is a modern-day story of the fictional Sparrow Lake Nation and follows the life of a young Tommy Henry…

Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season (translated by Sophie Hughes) opens with a grinning corpse; it ends under a pinprick of starlight.  Between, the novel remeasures space in the Americas, strung as it is along remote highways and canals

Gilbert Baker was a revolutionary advocate cut from a different cloth. With a “#14 needle, 1,000 yards of muslin, 10 pounds of natural dye in eight colors, and 100 pounds of salt and ash,” he raised an international symbol of LGBTQ+ freedom and truth…

King is not interested in telling a story, so much as reframing and reconfiguring cultural artifacts. He is not creating anything new, so much as pushing around detritus in the junkyard of post-industrial, late-capitalist America.

If you know anything about Robert Johnson, it is that he sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads…

“Graphology” – the pseudoscientific art of handwriting analysis and self-betterment – is in theory the basis for this playful novella by famed Uruguayan author Mario Levrero.