Jonathan Ned Katz’s "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams" is the biography of a queer Jewish woman whose life sheds light on the times. The short, fascinating... Read More

Feminist lawyer Priya-Alika Elias’s excellent essay collection "Besharam" explores modern womanhood in two nations. Elias grew up in India, came to the US for college and law... Read More

John Glenn, a prominent representative of the Greatest Generation, gets a dimensional treatment in Alice L. George’s biography, "The Last American Hero". While many Americans... Read More

The compiled interviews and texts of "George Harrison on George Harrison" come from across the music legend’s career, from before the Beatles hit it big up into the final year... Read More

Matthew Algeo’s "All This Marvelous Potential" is a broad study of Robert Kennedy’s 1968 two-day trip to Kentucky and its lasting effects on both the Appalachian people and... Read More

Comedian Richard Lucas’s George Carlin-esque memoir, "The Dog Log", begins with his “impotent fury” toward a neighbor with a yapping Yorkie; his initial frustration leads... Read More

Nikola Tesla was an accomplished scientist and inventor as well as an enigmatic technological dreamer, as shown in Amy M. O’Quinn’s thorough biography "Nikola Tesla for... Read More

Born in the mid-1800s, Fanny Bullock Workman was a trailblazer, garnering mountain-climbing records in a male-dominated sport and fighting for women’s rights years before the... Read More

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky grapple with identity, fear, self-discovery, and progress against the surreal backdrop of their novel, "The Snail on the Slope". This is a novel of... Read More

As recalled in "Ballots and Bullets", July 23, 1968, was a night of terror in Cleveland, Ohio. Six people were killed and at least fifteen wounded as police battled black... Read More

Myrtilla Miner was an important abolitionist who took the bold step of opening a school for African-American girls in Washington DC in the years leading up to the Civil War.... Read More

The Canadian borderlands, and their lakes, rivers, and portages, are rendered with a journalistic eye for detail. Kirk Landers’s "Alone on the Shield" is an adventure story... Read More