Ilana Masad

Nathaniel Philbrick traces California’s gold rush and the greed, political ambition, and environmental ruin that shaped the modern West.

Historian and activist Susan Stryker traces the evolution of gender as a concept.

A new book explores the benefits of accepting ugliness instead of trying to change it.

Retellings: The Reimagination of Stories We Know is a panel conversation on pushing the possibilities of the traditional storytelling forms.

Several new books argue that unscripted TV serves a social function: It helps us make sense of the world by constructing and deconstructing human drama.

What does it mean to monetize your offspring? To turn their childhood into content? In Like, Follow, Subscribe Fortesa Latifi explores what drives parents to become family influencers.

Harrison Hill's book The Oracle's Daughter is a story about the terror of losing the self — but it's also, gratifyingly, a story about finding the way back to it.

Sarah Stone’s linked novellas in “Marriage to the Sea” follow a theatrical family through grief, love, and the complications of self.

Lucille Miller was convicted of killing her husband in 1965. Now her daughter Debra reflects on her own traumatic childhood and its lingering effects in The Most Wonderful Terrible Person.

In her daring first novel, “How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder,” author Nina McConigley entwines race, sisterhood, and sexual violence in the American West.

The books we can't wait to read next year, from heartfelt memoirs to trans alien romantasy.

From horror to heartfelt romance (and sometimes both at once), here are some of our favorite reads of this year.

Julian Brave NoiseCat’s memoir, We Survived the Night, makes use of numerous genres to tell the stories of his family.

Five years ago, my partner gave me an incredible birthday present—a digital folder full of scanned documents.  Sound boring? It was anything but. The files came from the University of New Hampshire…

Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

Ilana Masad explores a feminist, queer, trans, anti-colonial work of sci-fi from 1929

An excerpt from BEINGS by Ilana Masad, recommended by Debbie Urbanski

A lot is going on in the background of Helen Oyeyemi’s confident eighth novel, 'New New Me,' whose main plotline swirls up and around unpredictably like self-serve fro-yo.

Alcatraz zookeepers refuse to give up even as species are dying in Emma Sloley's 'The Island of Last Things,' a resilient novel set in the future.