Peter Coviello reflects on myriad opportunities for connection through critical engagement with the arts in his intriguing essay collection "Is There God after Prince?" The collection is separated into five sections. The first,... Read More

Allyson Shaw traverses Scotland, visiting historical sites and memorials, in her meaningful book "Ashes and Stones". Focused on the women who were accused of witchcraft in Scotland in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Shaw... Read More

Mark Walczynski’s history book "Jolliet and Marquette" shines light on an important North American expedition. In 1673, Louis Jolliet, an explorer, and Jacques Marquette, a priest, set out to chart the Mississippi River and the... Read More

Belying its modest title, Joshua Winn’s "The Little Book of Exoplanets" is an extraordinary, far-reaching astronomy book that describes the exploration of planets outside our solar system. As this engaging book explains, more than five... Read More

The symbolism of the Soviet space program is examined in Cathleen S. Lewis’s cultural history "Cosmonaut". On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to enter space. Though brief, Gagarin’s venture outside of... Read More

In Rosemary Hennessy’s immersive book, seven singular authors are analyzed in terms of their unconventional lives and literary works. Drawing social crisis parallels between the 2020s and the Great Depression, this book unearths the... Read More

"The Rooster House", Victoria Belim’s poignant memoir, unveils the Ukrainian roots of a family mystery. Born in Ukraine, Belim moved to the United States with her family when she was fifteen. Decades later, while living in Brussels,... Read More

In the haunting dystopian novel "The Faction", a pandemic survivor is forced to reckon with deep economic inequality. In Kimberly R. Hill’s future-set novel "The Faction", a pandemic survivor is adopted by people from her father’s... Read More