Robin Hemley’s erudite essay collection "Borderline Citizen" probes the meaning of nationality. Profiling enclaves and exclaves, overseas territories, and displaced people,... Read More

Precise in the language of everyday, rich in wisdom and maturity, Joyce Sutphen’s newest collection, her eighth, speaks to her comfort with farm life, travel, aging, the... Read More

From Bigfoot to Area 51 to the Jersey Devil, the United States boasts plenty of legendary unsolved mysteries, and the Midwest has had its share of odd occurrences. B. J. Hollars... Read More

Heady, challenging, and thought-provoking, the essays in "This Fish Is Fowl" traverse international and cultural boundaries. Author Xu Xi is of Chinese descent and originally... Read More

With the importance of a free press and the rule of law rightly in the national conversation, Dan Bernstein’s "Justice in Plain Sight" is a timely release, detailing a... Read More

Thomas Jefferson thought of farmers as the nation’s MVPs. He called them “the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous” of our citizens. But Jefferson... Read More

Luisa Muradyan comes to America from Ukraine as a child. She grows up to study poetry at the doctorate level; meanwhile, her poems are published in Paris-American, Blackbird,... Read More

Moving from the recent past into the future, Sara Batkie’s short story collection "Better Times" traverses lives that are subtly or drastically twisted away from what is... Read More

A thirty-year NASA veteran, Clayton Anderson can list myriad impressive accomplishments: two missions to the International Space Station, six space walks, and the underdog story... Read More

David L. Bristow’s "Flight to the Top of the World" captures an era of wonder in which incredibly deadly endeavors pushed the boundaries of human possibility. The nineteenth-... Read More

Poetry is marvelous transportation. Africa beckons—you want some of me?—and the poet takes pains, takes pens to the stuff of his life, so that we can experience the Zimbabwe... Read More

Johnson has created an important work of sports—and American—history. In the 1930s, UCLA added five prominent black athletes to its football team, and they helped to turn... Read More