Stephen Browning’s fun travel book "On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes" traipses through the haunts of the beloved sleuth. With maps and descriptions of many of the places mentioned in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, this detailed... Read More

A wronged, bitter young man welcomes his fate in Natalia García Freire’s novel "This World Does Not Belong to Us". Lucas was just a child when his father sold him to another farmer as a laborer. Years later, Lucas returns, full of... Read More

"Dying with Dad" is a moving memoir about the importance of talking about death. Yvonne Caputo’s memoir "Dying with Dad" is about her experiences with losing people whom she loved—and with learning how to address the topic of death... Read More

The haunting short stories of Mikołaj Grynberg’s collection concern Jewish life and identity in Poland. The book’s thirty-one short stories alternate between being told from Jewish and non-Jewish perspectives, illustrating the... Read More

A young man is drawn to the culinary arts and a coworker in the romantic graphic novel Chef’s Kiss. Ben, a recent college graduate with an English degree and aspirations of becoming a writer, is having difficulty finding work in his... Read More

Women’s stories often must be rescued from the margins of history, as a writer on a difficult research expedition is reminded in Karolina Ramqvist’s introspective novel "The Bear Woman". A writer with two children is already somewhat... Read More

Intelligent and humorous, "To Drink and to Eat" covers Guillaume Long’s delightful culinary adventures. Long doesn’t claim to be a food critic, but his work with Le Monde, and his previous volumes of "To Drink and to Eat",... Read More

"Literature for a Changing Planet" articulates a new framework for reading classic and contemporary literature to better understand humanity’s damaging planetary impacts. This cogent, passionate text argues for a comprehensive... Read More