by Jiyoung Han
Debut novelist Jiyoung Han's Honey in the Wound alchemizes 90 years of Korean history into an extraordinary multigenerational epic. Twins Geum-Ja and Geum-Jin, born in 1902, were both named after the Korean word for gold "in hopes they might prosper in a way [their mother] never had." Sorrow becomes their legacy: Geum-Ja seemingly disappears and their parents die, leaving Geum-Jin alone. Japanese colonialization looms, and Geum-Jin's family, including wife Jung-Soon and three children, is decimated by vicious
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by Steven J. Ross
Steven J. Ross (Hitler in Los Angeles), a distinguished professor of history at the University of Southern California, couldn't be more timely in charting the evolution of organized bigotry and fascism in the United States, from the end of the Second World War up to the uncomfortable present day. The Secret War Against Hate is a reminder that the forces of antisemitism and white supremacy were not defeated along with the Axis powers at the end of World War II. Ross's words vibrate with a visceral urgency,
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by Rebecca Gayle Howell
There are those who feel a sacred text should never be tinkered with. Poet and translator Rebecca Gayle Howell's stunning Erase Genesis is for those who disagree, who remain open to the possibility that Scripture can speak its truth even when transformed.
Howell's thoroughly moving book-length poem is an iterative encounter with the King James Version of the first three chapters of Genesis. These words, already rich in poetry and familiar to many, are faithfully recorded in the opening pages, providing the
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by Miran Park, trans. by Paige Aniyah Morris
Miran Park's Everything Is Music, translated from the Korean by Paige Aniyah Morris, is a lyrical picture book that is both meditative and playful as it invites young readers to tune in to the world around them. On the opening spread, a child pedals away from home as "sounds stretch awake," an evocative description that sets the tone for a story rooted in curiosity and sensory awareness.
The child rides through landscapes, a puppy tucked into the bike basket, collecting the city's sonic textures. "The sounds
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by Michelle Kulwicki
Three teenagers enter the Labyrinth of Greek myth and fight nightmarish supernatural creatures in the high-adrenaline, blood-stained YA dark fantasy The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki (At the End of the River Styx).
The Labyrinth is "a plane of darkness," filled with "horrors," separated from the world by an invisible magical barrier. A secret society of blood magicians, all "children of gods," protect the Earth by keeping the barrier closed. However, the barrier is breaking down and wears
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