In Makenzy Orcel’s "The Immortals", a grieving woman vents her feelings on death and loss. A Haitian sex worker cajoles her client, a writer, into recording the life of her... Read More

Cynthia Burack’s "Because We Are Human" is an intelligent look at how national governments address the preservation of LGBTQ rights, especially as influenced by the United... Read More

What brand of privileged namby-pambiness will we get out of the twenty-something-year-old Theodore Roosevelt’s diary, he of Harvard and Columbia and the... Read More

Born the 1st of June, 1828, this restless man from Schenectady set aside a fairly promising painting career at the Hudson River School to help found the nation’s first... Read More

Dig deep into this experimental novel, and discover the pleasure of strategically implemented phrases and words. Intriguing and a bit surreal, "Going the Distance" explores... Read More

With a special passion for the food of Crete, this author offers dissections of food and culture worth thinking about. In his memoir, Eric Ball answers serious questions that... Read More

"Shame the Devil" presents Sara Payson Willis, who lived from 1811 to 1872 and was a writer known among the contemporary literati as Fanny Fern. Due to her esteemed company, the... Read More

Long before asphalt and cars and road trips became the stuff of Hollywood movies and popular songs, road trips of sorts shaped America. Think Lewis and Clark’s expedition,... Read More

“This was old-fashioned biology, the philosophical kind that gave meaning,” comments Mary Hood in this earnest eco-travelogue about her excursions to the watersheds of... Read More