In Chad Musick’s novel "From the Lighthouse", a mysterious nonbinary person searches for their place in the multidimensional universe. Musick holds a PhD in mathematics and lectures on knot theory, which informs the novel’s looping... Read More
"Beyond Diversity" is a cogent social science book that recognizes that progressive, meaningful change begins with individuals. Rohit Bhargava and Jennifer Brown’s progressive and inspiring book "Beyond Diversity" suggests means of... Read More
A young woman figures out how to belong in Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel "Win Me Something". Willa isn’t passionate about being a nanny, but it beats working at another coffee shop. Her latest charge is Bijou, a precocious nine-year-old next... Read More
"God Is" is an enthusiastic argument for the existence and benevolence of God. Garland Grimes’s bold religious treatise "God Is" introduces God to audiences from a Christian standpoint. Standing against the religious pessimism that it... Read More
Bootleggers and sports heroes populate the stories of "The Portable Creek", a memoir set in the unique world of an affable Southern man. Keith Huffman’s gentle and nostalgic memoir "The Portable Creek" is set in the South; it concerns... Read More
"Espoused" is a clever satirical novel whose approach to marriage, commitment, and love is thought provoking. In Jean Marie Davis’s satirical novel "Espoused", marriages are legally dissolved after fifteen years, and those who wish to... Read More
Elizabeth McGowan lost her father to melanoma when he was forty-four and she was fifteen. She rediscovered him during a bike ride across the US, following her battle with the same disease. Joyful, introspective, terrifying, and sobering,... Read More
Set during the German occupation of the Netherlands, "The Vision of Antje Baumann" is a historical novel that is horrifying and hopeful by turns. Laurence Powers’s moving historical novel, "The Vision of Antje Baumann", concerns the... Read More