Today, we’re pleased to reveal the cover art for Rinny Gremaud’s forthcoming novel Generator, translated by Holly James. Scheduled to be published by Schaffner Press on January 7, 2026, the novel tells a story of family secrets and nuclear power.
Social Media Gets (Literally) Wild in This Preview of “That Sexy Bear!”
Comics duo Owlin have drawn critical acclaim for their previous work, including the graphic novel How Do You Smoke a Weed? They’ve returned with a new project with publisher Iron Circus Comics, and this one is an unlikely combination of parkside antics and social media satire. Publisher Spike Trotman described That Sexy Bear! as having “[e]choes of classic mid century cartoons, crossed with 21st century sociopolitical anxiety and TikTok shitposting. It’s a terrible but familiar vision of eking out an existence in an Always Online America.”
We do, we make, we are
Performative, collaborative, immersive: SKIN hits all those marks, marks I didn’t know were there when I first wrote it, when I first began to understand what it might be like to work within a group of passionate people wanting more than anything—or almost anything, their creative and emotional mileage does vary—to make what they see in their minds and feel in their bodies become real: real enough to engage, to terrify, to galvanize an audience, people who came to see something they had never seen before.
Rebe Huntman on Memory, Piligrimages, and Creation
I met Rebe Huntman last year when we were both in Ohio for the Youngstown Fall Literary Festival. In the months that followed, I read her debut memoir My Mother in Havana, about a fateful trip Huntman made to Cuba. Throughout the book, Huntman asks big questions about belief, mortality, and human connection; throw in an unconventional structure and you have a deeply compelling read. I spoke with Huntman about her book’s origin, her connection to Cuba, and how her experience in other creative fields informed her memoir.
Previewing a Graphic Novel Adaptation of “Parable of the Talents”
What does it take to adapt a classic novel by Octavia E. Butler into words and pictures? Damian Duffy and John Jennings did just that with their award-winning adaptation of her Parable of the Sower, and they’ve returned to that fictional setting with a new book — their adaptation of Butler’s Parable of the Talents, due out on April 22 from Abrams ComicArts. We’re thrilled to publish an excerpt from the book below.
Immersion on the Art of Collaboration
Immersion, the duo of Malka Spigel and Colin Newman, have been making acclaimed music for a while, both as a duo and through their work in Minimal Compact and Wire, respectively. Their latest album, Nanocluster Vol. 3, is (as its title suggests) the third installment in a series of collaborations. This one teams them with New York’s stunning “ambient country” band SUSS; the result is an atmospheric, textured collection of music. I spoke with Spigel and Newman to learn more about this new album and their overall approach to the project.
Books of the Month: April 2025
Greetings, friends. It’s April and we’re reading books. Sharply written fiction, incisive nonfiction, and a 70s-style photo novel are all on our list; there are debut books here and new work by old favorites. Here’s a look at 10 of the books we’re most excited to check out this month.
Lives Upended In an Election’s Wake: On “Quarterlife” by Devika Rege
Devika Rege begins her timely, layered, and inquisitive debut novel Quarterlife with an epigraph by Kabir, a 15th century Indian poet. The inscription carries urgency, especially in Hindi. At a literal level, Kabir describes a lover’s red as so intense that the narrator sees the color wherever they look, and in the narrator’s search for redness, they take on the hue. Visually, the verses impart images of sweeping, suffusive scarlet, foreshadowing Quarterlife’s experimental, ever-expanding structure. Thematically, Kabir’s lines convey Rege’s rigor as she reckons with democracy.