These stories—in a sober, effective way—show how the US experiment in draconian justice has been a complete failure. Spoiler alert. The answer to the implied question in the title The Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement... Read More

A heroine in a dystopian theocracy struggles to find her own spiritual path, in this tale of love, danger, and religious awakening. In a postapocalyptic society, the book of Veritas demands that worthy men choose a lucky few women to be... Read More

Extensive detail provides insight into postwar treatment of Korean War POWs, putting it into present-day context. As Brian D. McKnight acknowledges at the outset of his comprehensive history of twenty-three American soldiers who declined... Read More

For a writer like Rebecca Solnit, it is impossible to walk through a pitch dark labyrinth in Iceland without thinking of Athena hacking her way out of Zeus’s head, labias, certain Christians who believe the Virgin Mary conceived... Read More

Everyday life in the American Southwest makes for an apt landscape for this coming-of-age novel of family secrets and maturing love. In Sophie’s House of Cards, teenage Sophie’s loud-mouthed whimsy and fragile attempts at sincerity... Read More

Rollins’s lucid descriptions allow a twenty-first-century eye to discern the humanity and heroism of a primitive world and time. Travel fourteen thousand years into the past in this realistic depiction of primitive society. Powerful... Read More

As the story progresses, the narrator grows stronger, making this both a novel of a woman’s courage and a call to action against domestic abuse. A woman may need strength to be a mother of four, but she also needs a healthy dose of... Read More

Descriptions and explanations intertwine, creating a believable setting and a connection to the narrator. Luca Vianello’s future is set in stone: from inheriting the family gondola business to his betrothal to Annalisa, the... Read More