Nancy E. Davis’s "The Chinese Lady" applies historical detective work to document the life of Afong Moy, who took an unusual journey through nineteenth-century America. It reveals much about the young United States, its view of other... Read More

Grant Price’s "By the Feet of Men" takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. Part adventure tale, part dystopian novel, it’s an immersive story about survival and how the notion of the future keeps people going. Climate change and... Read More

What do Madonna, George Michael, and Lady Gaga have in common with Petrarch? A lot, according to Melissa E. Sanchez’s new book, "Queer Faith". The book unpacks the secular language that Western culture uses to talk about love and race... Read More

Contemplating the depth of the soul by considering elements of nature, theology professor Belden Lane begins his enthralling "The Great Conversation" by explaining his twenty-year love affair with “Grandfather,” a hundred-year-old... Read More

Its characters trample through lands on the brink of madness in search of something certain; its images are violent, heartbreaking, and starkly real. Morris Collins’s "Horse Latitudes" is a historically attuned novel for a world that... Read More

An exhaustive scientific report on the health of the coral reefs, shown to be critically important to the earth’s future, "Coral Whisperers" draws upon years of research. Through her in-depth interviews with one hundred coral... Read More

Daniel DiFranco’s intimate novel "Panic Years" follows a twelve-week tour of everywhere-but-nowhere, through tiny clubs, on filthy stages, and across long stretches of highway. Life as a gigging musician is rough. Twenty-eight-year-old... Read More

Nicholas Carnes’s "The Cash Ceiling" aims to answer daunting questions, and skillfully follows through. Discussions of the lack of class diversity in American political offices are in the spotlight. A focus on inclusion has led to... Read More