A TIME FOR MONSTERS by Gareth Worthington
Murder Isn’t the Only Thing That Makes a Monster in Nordic Noir Thriller In Gareth Worthington’s latest novel, the thriller A Time for Monsters (Vesuvian Books), veteran Detective Arne Huakaas is a man…
Category: Social Justice
Chronicling Historical Butchery
How Audrey Clare Farley turned a story about eugenics into a book. Living in an alternate reality between 2016 and 2021 caused me to fear that American social justice, and…
The Girl From the Channel Islands: A Novel by Jenny Lecoat
A Jewish woman falls in love with a German soldier amid the Nazi occupation of Jersey. In her debut novel, The Girl from the Channel Islands, author Jenny Lecoat skillfully weaves…
Brandon Hobson’s THE REMOVED: A Novel
A Cherokee family struggles to survive trauma past and present. Author Brandon Hobson is well versed in tales of tragedy suffered by the Cherokee Nation. His novel Where the Dead Sit…
Rosalind Miles Mines History to Bring Us the Women Who Dared
The author, historian, and activist talks to Shondaland about her new book, “The Women’s History of the Modern World.” “As a child, I cannot remember when I realized that to…
A Story From the Struggle – The Kindest Lie
In her debut novel, Nancy Johnson explores racial injustice and social inequality. Nancy Johnson’s eloquently written, introspective, and emotionally resonant debut novel, The Kindest Lie, is a timely commentary on social…
Battling Bias Complicity
How Yi Shun Lai advocates for marginalized voices. Yi Shun Lai is a writer, editor, columnist for the Writer magazine, an MFA program instructor at Bay Path and Southern New…
The Garden Secret
A dogged heroine struggles to untangle herself from the mysterious Vine. In her debut novel, Daughters of the Wild, Natalka Burian crafts a tale of magical realism mixed with a woman’s determination to…