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Think of Joshua's debut literary novel, PAX AMERICANA, as the book The Corrections meets the film Traffic: a sprawling, deeply-researched, relationship-driven saga that follows three broken Midwesterners from the Asian pop circuit to Syrian battlefields to Congolese mines and back home to a Fourth of July reckoning with ICE agents in Gary, Indiana, tracing American imperialism from its frontiers to the homefront. The novels reads briskly, will appeal to book clubs, and is gro

June 2020. Covid has shut down the world. Chicago is entering its 12th week of lockdown. Shops are shuttered, schools empty, offices vacant. Even beaches, parks, and playgrounds are closed. “What a kid supposed to do?” - Sheila Cummings This heartwarming, arthouse coming-of-age feature film, in the style of CODA, tells the story of two boys--Leo and Ja'Sir--who run away from home in the midst of the Covid pandemic. In doing so, they bring their families together and restore t

When the tolerant, idealistic Empire that long guaranteed the peace of Mana is on the verge of defeat by dark forces obsessed with purity and segregation, a sister and brother set out on a quest across three continents to rescue their diverse world. Sora, a famous warrior mage, seeks to rally uncommitted nations of humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, and mixed forms to fight together before all perish divided; her brother Mars, a bumbling scholar, has an even more audacious go

Joshua Howes considers himself a community filmmaker, which means that he makes films in collaboration with primarily local, often non-professional fellow artists and actors, along with professional technicians in the local area. The feature film Corona Boys stars his 12-year-old son Leo and his best friend Ja'Sir, is produced largely by their family and neighbors, and is being finished by two professional studios in Chicago. MORE TO COME IN THIS POST ...