This graphic memoir (ahem) This collection of comics chronicles the life of an Iranian girl named Marji, whose experiences are heavily based on those of author Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi...

Holes! We all need ’em, we all love ’em. This is a book where a boy is sentenced to dig a bunch of holes out in the desert because...

Lo’s award-winning novel seeks to shine a light on marginalized experiences from mid-century San Francisco. What’s most impressive is how she’s synthesized all of her research into a couple...

Every week, one of our hosts reads a book and tells the other person (and you, the audience) about it. This week’s book is about the topic of war...

For our latest show-within-a-show, we’ll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s The Iliad. We’ll be reading it a few books at a time and having...

The first rule of podcasting is DON’T TALK ABOUT PODCASTING. The second rule of podcasting is please tell everyone about podcasting and specifically about this episode in which we...

There There sets itself apart by being a book by and about indigenous Americans in an explicitly contemporary, urban setting. It’s also got a neat perspective-shifting structure and interconnected...

This bonus episode was recorded on LEAP DAY! So we leapt into The Mystery at Lilac Inn with our good friend young sleuth Nancy Drew! Let’s play some Hot...

The third and final of White’s whimsical children’s books about animals, The Trumpet of the Swan asks important questions like: How do swans learn English? How can we better...