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1 month ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Adam Eli |Jake Nevins
“Perhaps Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel,” wrote Professor Grace Lavery in The Guardian of the debut novel by Torrey Peters. This sentiment was commonplace in 2021, when the book took the literary world by storm.
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2 months ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Adam Eli |Jake Nevins
“I willingly confess to having an early interest in sex that eventually developed into a fetish for sex play in highly inappropriate locations,” Del LaGrace Volcano, the 67-year-old American artist, told me over zoom last month. This remark can be easily confirmed by a glance at the cover of Del’s new book, which blares the title Queer Dyke Cruising under a photo of four dykes making out in a park.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Gretchen Whitmer |Adam Eli |Michael Bronski
Michigan governor Whitmer highlights career achievements and life lessons in this young adult adaptation of her 2024 work for adults. This book weaves self-help advice together with personal anecdotes from the Democratic politician’s childhood and political career (including the infamous, failed conspiracy by a far-right militia group to kidnap her in 2020).
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Eli |Alok Vaid-Menon
Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence. The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Eli |George Takei |Justin Eisinger |Steven Scott
A lack of nuance and overemphasis on positivity undermine this work’s potential positive impact. A work that aspires to motivate teens by highlighting the power of grit and perseverance in overcoming adversity. Each of the five chapters tackles different categories of challenges, showcasing stories of triumph in the face of learning and physical disabilities, homelessness, the struggles of being an immigrant, and mental illness.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Eli |George Takei |Justin Eisinger |Steven Scott
A valuable, empathetic guide for teens who need information, whether for themselves or for peers, on mental health distress. A succinct overview of the mental health crisis that many adolescents are currently experiencing. The book’s introduction explains the current struggles that many teens face due to the heightened stressors of the long-term effects of social media and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
culturedmag.com | Adam Eli
Photography by Oriette D’Angelo and courtesy of Garth Greenwell. Garth Greenwell’s third novel, Small Rain, opens with the poet narrator experiencing a gut-wrenching pain that eventually lands him in the ICU at the height of Covid. Those familiar with the author's work won’t be surprised he’s writing about anguish and the body.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | James Roland |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
May be of interest to football fans now but is superficial and certain to date quickly. Profiles of six young quarterbacks with dazzling skills and promising futures. Roland’s roster includes one biracial, two white, and three Black elite young arrivals—Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Brock Purdy, Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, and C.J. Stroud—who played for teams all over the United States.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Carla Mooney |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
A thought-provoking comparison of the costs and benefits of electric vehicles. Against the obvious advantages of vehicles that don’t create toxic emissions and use little to no fossil fuels, Mooney weighs many of the hidden costs.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Stuart A. Kallen |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
This concise volume offers a brief overview of the causes of climate change, the reasons to be worried, and the positive choices that make a difference. Pointing out that Americans are uncertain about which actions might actually help the effort to slow climate change, Kallen has selected six areas of focus: diet, travel, low-waste lifestyles, energy use, greening the world, and activism.
