"The Redemption of George Baxter Henry" is a f\#^ing entertaining romp—and if a reader is put off by that description, there’s little chance of enjoying Conor Bowman’s off-handed, tightly structured little book about a middle-aged... Read More

The theme of an anti-hero confronting his personal demons through self-exploration and repeated failure is a familiar one: it requires little searching to find a book or film that represents any number of flawed (yet somewhat likable)... 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 book reads like a compilation of biographical incidents... Read More

"The Price of Glory", set in 1795 post-Revolutionary France, is the author’s third in a nautical series featuring fictional British seaman Captain Nathan Peake. With vivid tales of ships and the sea, wind and weather, war and... Read More

"The Luminist", by David Rocklin, explores the struggle to find one’s place in the world when confined by society to an ill-fitting role in which one’s dreams and abilities outshine what is acceptable—and what it means to break... Read More

A young family ripped apart by one parent’s early death is hardly new territory in fiction, and neither is the terrain of a strong widow holding together her family, forging a newly independent life, and succeeding against odds. Yet,... Read More

History tells us that humans, as a race, need few excuses for committing violence: they can hate, injure, and kill on the basis of whim alone. Then there are those who are compelled to enforce or defend a cause—and therefore place... Read More

The Human Rights Watch estimates there are twenty million sex workers in India. Feminists are divided on what to do. On one side, radical feminists take a political position, advocating abolition; to them, sex work is nothing more than... Read More