An unlikely adventure park owner tries to keep his business afloat in Antti Tuomainen’s humorous mystery novel "The Moose Paradox". After inheriting an adventure park and a mountain of debt from his brother Juhani, Henri’s careful... Read More

Cecelia Tichi’s "Midcentury Cocktails" blends history, literature, and cultural critiques to address trends in alcohol and entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite what jokes about Baby Boomers suggest, the 1950s and 1960s were... Read More

In "Chasing Plants", botanist Chris Thorogood shares how his lifelong obsession with plants led him to precarious situations in far-flung places to find them, no matter what it took. Thorogood sketched and scribbled his way around the... Read More

First published in 1933, the new version of "Romania", edited by Ernest Latham Jr., compiles more than three hundred images by the late photographer Kurt Hielscher, taken during visits from 1931 to 1932. It’s an intriguing... Read More

Louise Omer’s "Holy Woman" is an earnest memoir based around informal pilgrimages to meet women faith leaders in search of a spirituality free of men’s domination. Drawn by a charismatic pastor and rock concert-like revivals, Omer... Read More

In Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe’s mystery novel "The Spirit Phone", historical figures try to prevent an otherworldly monster from entering the human world. When Aleister Crowley teleports into the hotel suite of Nikola Tesla, it is a... Read More

An alien seeking salvation for his planet falls prey to the vices of human beings in the graphic novel adaptation of "The Man Who Fell to Earth". Based on the 1976 science fiction film of the same name, which was itself adapted from a... Read More

In the luminous essays of Priyanka Kumar’s "Conversations with Birds", birds are a portal to reclaiming childhood connections with nature and the lush, wild landscape of northern India’s remote mountains. Torn from her roots by a... Read More