Karen Schechner

Sep 12, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Karen Schechner

Indieland sees many books on Jewish philosophy, cooking, history, and culture. These four starred books—three nonfiction and one fiction—explore different facets of Jewish life, including wanderlust and visiting the homeland, finding solace and wisdom in Jewish texts, the reticence of Holocaust survivors, and using superpowers to evade Nazis. S. Yerucham chronicles his experiences with sex, drugs, mental illness, globe-trotting, and spirituality in True Stories of the Philosophical Theater (2023).

Jul 8, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Karen Schechner

Graphic lit and comics have always been ideal showcases for gritty antiheroes, especially the tortured souls who risk their lives to save a corrupt Gotham. The artwork conveys a gothic mood in an instant, and readers get a visceral sense of setting and bloodletting. In Indieland, some of our top picks for graphic lit continue the tradition of depicting the down-and-out savior but with a few inventive twists.

Jun 19, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Karen Schechner