
THE POEM WITHIN THE POEM: A BILINGUAL READING
Venezuelan poet NIDIA HERNÁNDEZ bridges the gulf between her two countries in The Farewell Light,leaping effortlessly between the natural world and meditations on culture, family,

CLIMATE CHANGE & OUR FRAGILE EARTH – NONFICTION
In Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis, climate scientist MICHAEL E. MANN notes that what made

HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER
Join us for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots

LITERALLY LITERARY THRILLERS – FICTION
In JENNIFER CROFT’s The Extinction of Irena Rey: A Novel, eight translators visit a renowned author in a primeval Polish forest, who then mysteriously vanishes

RECKONINGS & RETURNING HOME – FICTION
In DONNA HEMANS’ The House of Plain Truth, Pearline receives news about her ailing father and travels to her native Jamaica. After a tense reunion

A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE – NONFICTION
AMANDA BECKER’s You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America is an inspiring, on-the-ground story of emerging grassroots leaders in the

SECRETS & SECOND CHANCES – FICTION
LOUIS BAYARD’s The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts revolves around a fateful summer in the life of famous playwright Oscar Wilde as he was

NUEVA POESÍA DESDE EL 305
LIZETTE ESPINOSA ofrece un volumen desgarrador que ha sido escrito con la pasión y la frialdad de quien conoce los retos de la existencia; GERMÁN

POWER DYNAMICS & COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS – FICTION
MESHA MAREN’s Shae: A Novel is the story of a young couple in the heart of West Virginia: the title character, who is pregnant, and

IN PURSUIT: TRUE CRIME – NONFICTION
In Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI, retired FBI agent JANA MONROE –

RUPTURE & REPAIR: POETRY OF DISPLACEMENT & TRANSFORMATION
ARMEN DAVOUDIAN’s The Palace of Forty Pillars tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian

’TIS THE SEASON FOR LOVE: HOLIDAY ROMANCE – FICTION
With Christmas nearing, two women swap homes. One has been lying to her family about her engagement and just wants to get away; the other