Writers from the continent of Africa are some of the most exciting new authors being read in the west. Here’s a tasting of a few new voices, along with a well-established one.

Speculative fiction imagines alternate realities, dystopian futures, fantastical possibilities, and much more. Discover new worlds to explore within these recently published works of speculative imagination.

How do we define a cult? How does it differ from a religion? What draws people to a cult? One thing all cults have in common is that the people in them do not consider themselves to be in a cult.

We’re heading into the darkest time of the year now, so let’s EMBRACE it. Curl up in your favorite chair, have a hot cup or a glass of wine handy, and read …

November is National Native American Heritage Month -- check out these new and noteworthy titles by Native American writers, spanning from works of memoir to poetry to fiction.

The “we” in these titles range from Native American comics to American political activists to African American farmers to Japanese American resistors to imprisonment to a startup that flopped.

The concept of home, as both a physical place as well as a state of mind, is explored in poetry and prose by these four women writers.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read, the value of free and open access to information, and the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular…