Sarah Lampert, creator  Ginny & Georgia Netflix / 2021-present / TV-14 Reviewed by Raechel Sigur / October 2025 Checks and Balances: Ginny & Georgia In the world of streaming and binge-watching, Netflix’s  Ginny & Georgia stands out as a poignant, layered drama. Created by Sarah Lampert, Ginny & Georgia is a single-camera drama that traces the complicated bond between a teenage girl and her morally complex mother as they navigate identity, trauma, and the shadows of a tumul

A. Kendra Greene No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity   Tin House / March 2025 / 228 pp / $28.95 Reviewed by Laura Johnsrude / October 2025 In No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity, author and artist A. Kendra Greene marvels at the world—her personal, in-the-moment experiences—with luscious granularity. The title page notes the contents are “written and illuminated by A. Kendra Greene,” and a variety of shades-of-black images supplement the essays—ins

Michael Kelly, Editor Northern Nights Undertow Publications / 2024 / 296 pages / $20 Reviewed by V. A. Vazquez / October 2025   Michael Kelly’s anthology of Canadian horror fiction, Northern Nights , begins with a land acknowledgment. “I am a settler,” the editor professes, and it is this—the act of inhabiting, of intruding, of invading—that permeates most strongly throughout these twenty original short stories. There are few landscapes as brutal and savage as the Canadian wi

Arianna Rebolini   Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die   HarperCollins / April 2025 / 352 pp / $30 Hardcover   Reviewed by Hope...

Martín Espada Jailbreak of Sparrows Alfred A. Knopf / 2025 / 114 pp / $29 Hardback Reviewed by James Long / June 2025   About a third of...

Roisín O’Donnell Nesting Algonquin Books / February 2025 / 400 pp / $29.00 Hardcover Reviewed by pine breaks / April 2025 Nesting  is...

Diane Seuss Modern Poetry Graywolf Press / 2024 / 112 pp / $26.00 Reviewed by Melissa Shepherd / April 2025   In Modern Poetry , Diane...

Rebe Huntman My Mother in Havana:   A Memoir of Magic & Miracle Monkfish Book Publishing Company / February 2025 / 280 pp / $24.99...

Melissa Helton, editor Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky Fireside Industries, imprint of The University Press...