In Sonya Huber’s memoir, the Holy Grail is health insurance. Yet her lurching, oft-thwarted journey also poses the larger question of how health, and peace of mind about it,... Read More

A winning sports season is marred by the illegal, sometimes violent, behavior of two dozen players on the University of Washington’s 2000 football team, resulting in their... Read More

On Saturday morning, February 27, 1943, workers on the day shift at Bearcreek, Montana’s Smith Mine had been on the job for barely a couple of hours when something went... Read More

The 2001 movie, "The Fast Runner", the first feature-length film written, directed, and produced by Inuit artists and shot on location in the frozen Arctic, garnered acclaim at... Read More

Flutter the pages of Patrick Madden’s "Quotidiana", and entering it becomes irresistible. A photo of the author placed next to one of Jeffrey Dahmer might ignite the... Read More

"Things Seen" is a slender volume of essays, so slim for a book-length work that it might be mistaken for, at a first glance, a novella or a poet’s chapbook. Though brief, the... Read More

“On the long, hairpinned climb…” begins Dodd, taking readers with her a journey through the “animate” world by way of her “mind’s eye.” With personal passion,... Read More

Lana’s Lakota Moons is an endearing story of two young girls—cousins by birth, sisters by tradition—as they learn the ancient customs of their Lakota Indian heritage. With... Read More

What a treasure to have a second how-to book of this caliber enter the world for developing writers. This new handbook is like its predecessor in its most important... Read More

This comprehensive guide to writing about American Indians assists both novice and experienced writers who seek to write responsibly and engagingly about America’s first... Read More

First things first: this book is not really “about” the French Navy; in fact, it’s a full-dress history of the Seven Years War as a whole, from the French perspective. The... Read More

The Poet Laureate of the United States didn’t need to write a poetry handbook. There are dozens of books that, to varying degrees of success, teach developing poets how to... Read More