Drawing on oral history, photographs, and letters, Darius and Catherine Brubeck revisit their inauguration of a fertile jazz music launchpad in South Africa during and after apartheid in "Playing the Changes". The book’s vibrant... Read More

Jim Baggott and John L. Heilbron explore the combative history of quantum mechanics in their science book "Quantum Drama". Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr are among the most famous men in physics, yet they employed very different... Read More

An isolated teenager finds a companion in another loner, but their friendship leads to tragedy in the graphic novel Dark & Twisted: The Killing Hole. In 1979, Stewart lives in Virginia with his divorced mother. He meets Peter in... Read More

In Anne Leigh Parrish’s historical novel "The Hedgerow", an enigmatic woman’s professional goals clash with postwar American culture. Circumstances compel Edith to take a room in Henry’s lavish home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... Read More

Camara Lundestad Joof’s piercing memoir I Talk about It All the Time concerns the particularities of systemic racism in Scandinavia. Joof, who is a queer Black Norwegian Gambian woman, writes in Nynorsk—“the much less used of two... Read More

With elements of magical realism, Tathagata Bhattacharya’s rollicking satirical novel "General Firebrand and His Red Atlas" covers the machinations of political alliances and regimes. On the Indian subcontinent, the guerrillas of Sands... Read More

A local healer falls in love with a dashing nobleman in "A Kingdom to Claim", Sian Ann Bessey’s romantic epic set in medieval Wessex. Aisley, who helps out with her sick sister, is upended when she loses her father and finds out that... Read More

In Ann McMan’s romance novel "The Black Bird of Chernobyl", a misanthropic mortician meets her match in her new bubbly community outreach colleague. Lilah runs her family’s mortuary and prefers to stay in the morgue over interacting... Read More