Ursula Pike’s travel memoir "An Indian Among Los Indígenas" covers her two transformative, eye-opening years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, which fulfilled her desire to “see the world, learn some skills, and help people”... Read More

In Shubha Sunder’s novel "Optional Practical Training", an Indian immigrant tries to make a home in the US. After completing her undergraduate degree, Pavrita begins teaching physics at a school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, extending... Read More

In Sydney Dunlap’s stirring novel "Racing the Clouds", a girl navigates complex family relationships on her path to forgiveness. After a sudden move from Philadelphia to rural Virginia with her father, thirteen-year-old Sage’s world... Read More

Chef and holistic nutritionist Christina Soteriou’s cookbook "Big Veg Energy" draws on her Greek Cypriot heritage to bring an eclectic, international vibe to vegan cuisine. The book begins by tackling some of the obstacles people often... Read More

A disgraced writer fails to confront or acknowledge his crimes in Tova Reich’s discomfiting novel "Camp Jeff". Jeffrey Epstein (not that one) founded Camp Jeff to rehabilitate people like Gershon, a high-profile author brought down by... Read More

Sally Symes’s colorful, child-friendly reference text "First Big Book of How" compiles dozens of scientific questions on topics ranging from human memory to space telescopes and dinosaur extinction. The questions are siphoned into six... Read More

Cynthia Blakeley’s poignant memoir "The Innermost House" explores her dysfunctional upbringing and family life in working-class Massachusetts. Born in 1958, Blakeley grew up along the shores of Cape Cod, a longstanding summer tourist... Read More

Spanning literary criticism, social science, and the study of the fairy tale, Kimberly J. Lau’s "Specters of the Marvelous" foregrounds race in often whitewashed European fairy tales. Prior to cinema, fairy tales were collected,... Read More