The Circle Never Breaks: On Mister Magic, Childhood Horror, and the Stories That Know Us Before We Know Ourselves There is a moment in Kiersten White’s Mister Magic that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I read it: A slow understanding of why five people, thirty […]
Audiobook Review: Such a Lucky Girl by Wendy Heard Two former best friends, one who built her whole life on being Such a Lucky Girl to three million Instagram followers, one who got left behind and found a book from the 1960s connected to a cult that did not end […]
ARC Review: You’re No Better by Andrew Joseph White Andrew Joseph White has built a reputation for writing the kind of YA that does not look away, books about trans and neurodivergent teens navigating worlds that were not built for them, wrapped in horror and thriller elements that hit harder […]
Feature: We’re Here. We’re Queer. And We’re Still Fighting. Today kicks off Banned Books Week, and October is also LGBTQ+ History Month. We want to start it with something that is both a celebration and a reminder of why these designations matter. We’re Here, We’re Queer! A History of LGBTQ+ […]
Feature: Tradwife by Michelle Brandon & The Fantasy That was Never for Us Welcome to October, y’all. What better way to kick off spooky szn than with the real horrors we live with! But for real, in just a few days, it will be Banned Books Week and we are […]
Crush on This: The House of Now and Then by Edward Underhill & More Picks Fall TBR season is here and if you spent the summer in survival mode, you are not alone. There are a handful of books from the past few months that slipped through our TBR and […]
Cover Crush: Like Glass by Jen Ferguson Jen Ferguson’s debut The Summer of Bitter and Sweet introduced readers to a Métis author who writes about grief, identity, and the things families carry across generations. In Like Glass, her fourth YA novel, Tatum travels to Chamonix to retrieve her estranged father […]
The September Crush Pile Every month our mailbox delivers something worth talking about. The Crush Pile is where those books land, a quick look at what arrived, why it caught our eye, and why it might deserve a spot on your radar too. This month’s pile brought us Time-Traveling Chickens: […]
Author Interview: Legally Yours, Violet Lopez by Elba Luz Legally Yours, Violet Lopez follows a high-achieving Latina student with a near-perfect record defending her peers against the disciplinary board who gets blackmailed into taking the one case she specifically refused. Enemies to lovers, class tension, and a protagonist who will […]
Audiobook Review: Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour A Book of the Month Club pick, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and earning starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, Meet Me in the Garden is the book that Nina LaCour’s readers have been waiting for since she […]