White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female

For millennia, letters have been a powerful medium through which to express deepest sentiments and feelings about well-kept secrets. Educator and speaker Ronnie Gladden leverages the power of the missive to share complicated and sensitive emotions and unvarnished truths about the confluence of race and gender in their memoir White […]

Worlds Long Lost

The question “Are we alone in the universe?” has never been answered with a definitive yes or no, but that hasn’t stopped storytellers from looking to the stars and imagining other worlds. Many authors make a living off bringing these fictional places to life. New stories come out about past […]

Night Lunch

What struck me first about Night Lunch was the wonderful style of the illustrations. The textures and subtle use of colors among a mainly sepia palette really made the pictures come to life. As the night lunch cart rolls into town, a majestic owl cooks for his fellow animals. From […]

A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom

A tragic ending to a story may be all the more reason to read it, especially when that story is true. Almost four hundred enslaved Virginians should have been freed upon the death of John Randolph in 1833. However, contestants to the will kept the enslaved in limbo for almost […]

One Long Listening: A Memoir of Grief, Friendship, and Spiritual Care

In the waning days of struggling with illness and preparing for the inevitable, a chaplain can serve as a guide to achieving spiritual comfort and healing. Readers are offered a glimpse into chaplaincy through one long listening, Chenxing Han’s poetic memoir relaying her wonderings and reflections as a student at […]