Literary

In The Cost of Free Land, this award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish family's land in South Dakota, and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. The Cost of Free Land was named a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Review, The Jewish Forward, The Tribal […]

Elizabeth Chai is a graphic designer and coffee aficionado. In her book How to Buy Essentially​​ Nothing for a Year she tells the story of what led her to the completely unorthodox, outlandish, and incredible decision to buy nothing for an entire year. Now deep into her fifth consecutive year of Buying Essentially Nothing, she […]

Whiskey Tender is a memoir about family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. Deborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and […]

In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered, Feeding Ghosts is a vivid journey into the beating heart of one family, set against the dark backdrop of Chinese history. […]