With a resident’s in-the-bones understanding of the place, Jason Berry’s "City of a Million Dreams" is a hypnotic biography of a unique American city. Beyond its Mardis Gras, po boys, and jazz lies a richer and more complex New... Read More

The trouble with country living: there’s nobody to hear you scream. Lacey McCrae, a former corporal in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, defends a friend from a nighttime stalker in the tense thriller "When the Flood Falls". With... Read More

Babel’s remarkable ability to portray self-preservation stands out. Born in Odessa and known for his tragicomic, often violent collages of Jewish characters, Isaac Babel is honored in "The Essential Fictions", a generous volume of... Read More

Ernst Kantorowicz, son of a wealthy German Jewish liqueur manufacturing family, aesthete, intellectual, confirmed bachelor, active bisexual, and groundbreaking medievalist, is a contentious figure, even within Robert E. Lerner’s Ernst... Read More

Inventive and original comedic touches make this riff on fantasy standards a satisfying read. Tiger BlackHawk’s morality-fueled fairy tale "The BlackHawk Meets the Tiger" is an entertaining and humorous fantasy mash-up in which a... Read More

The subject matter in itself is daunting, even frightening, but MacGibbon’s courage and comedy make "Fierce, Funny, and Female" a winner. Being funny is a survival skill. Marti MacGibbon’s incredible memoir "Fierce, Funny, and... Read More

Extensive research and an injection of personality make this a definitive biography of the most underrated Beatle. Richard Starkey evolved from working-class roots and a sickly childhood to becoming one-quarter of the most famous... Read More

A fast-paced, politically savvy potboiler, "Deadly Cold" is a quick and engaging read. A series of apocalyptic natural disasters plunges Earth into a deep freeze in Jed O’Dea’s "Deadly Cold". Two fugitive scientists, Maya and Tucker... Read More