A follow up to the acclaimed Super Late Bloomer, trans cartoonist Julia Kaye is back with sweet strips chronicling a life post-transition. Everyday indignities and triumphs each take their turn in concise and satisfying three-panel vignettes full of wonderful intimacy and gentle humour.

Hotly anticipated ever since The Sixth Extinction, the Pulitzer-winning Elizabeth Kolbert delves back into the concept of the anthropocene, humanity’s ongoing relationship to nature, and the world we are making. Never taking the most serious of topics too seriously, Kolbert is always an inspiration. 

In what Maggie Nelson calls “an absolute tour de force,” Jeremy Lin Atherton explores the role of the gay bar in shaping queer identity, and what mass closures mean for that identity going forward. Gay Bar is pure exuberance, charting a history that includes raids and raves, glitz, glamour, and glory holes.

Pasha Malla’s newest horror-fantasy novel takes you into the heart of the shopping centre, as the narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban mall. Critique of consumer culture and hair-raising late-night thriller merge in this story of dark halls and the darker edges of human nature. 

Iconic book designer Peter Mendelsund flexes his own writing skills with The Delivery, a novel that offers a glimpse into the world of delivery people -- that class so often forgotten. The vast infrastructure that shuttles goods from corporation to consumer offers something of a blueprint for the story’s own twists and turns, impossible to anticipate.