Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s essay collection "Halfway from Home" is careful in its considerations of home, family, the natural world, and how the three intersect. Beginning in Montgomery’s childhood in a dusty California town, “Dig”... Read More

In Akbar Hussain’s crime thriller "Truth Is a Flightless Bird", a man races to rescue a pregnant woman from Nairobi’s violent underworld. Nice would do anything for her unborn child, including smuggling drugs into Nairobi. Nice’s... Read More

In 2013, Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer released the bestselling Braiding Sweetgrass, a blend of scientific study and memoir that proposed complementing Western ecological ideas with Indigenous ideologies and practices. Monique... Read More

A young girl is tucked into bed with her three stuffed rabbits, imagining all the essential chores they will accomplish while she sleeps—polishing the sun, dusting the butterflies, and stuffing clouds among them. Rhyming couplets... Read More

“We make a lot of mistakes, and often we take the wrong path,” writes Oscar Farinetti in "Serendipity", a whirlwind book of forty-eight essays that tour some of the best culinary mistakes to grace humanity’s palate, from Barolo... Read More

Love is the driving force in Alina Adams’s intimate novel "My Mother’s Secret", set in Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. A firm believer in communism, Regina dreams of building a socialist Jewish society in Birobidzhan, the designated... Read More

A gay couple deals with distance and temptation in Floor de Goede’s graphic memoir "Dancing on the Volcano". Flo and Bas have been together for three years, but Flo is visiting the Aeolian Islands and will be apart from Bas for ten... Read More

Anna Beer’s "Eve Bites Back" is a scrupulous study of the complicated creative realities of eight influential but often unheeded women writers. Beer notes that power dynamics of access and discourse make it challenging for women... Read More