Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s "Jim" is an encyclopedic work of literary criticism that celebrates Mark Twain’s classic. "Jim" contends that readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as racist have missed Twain’s use of irony to... Read More

In Alma García’s novel "All That Rises", two families living on the borderland between the US and Mexico share a tangled history. Rose Marie leaves her husband and three children without explanation. On the same day but a few houses... Read More

Ernesto Mestre-Reed’s historical novel is set in Cuba in the late 1990s, where a displaced young man learns the limits of family, trust, and community. Rafa is an orphan. He moves to Havana, where Cecilia, a restaurant owner, becomes... Read More

A. K. Brackob’s detailed biography chronicles the little-known life of Vlad Dracul—the father of Vlad the Impaler. The literary vampire Dracula has captured the imagination of generations of horror readers. Brackob reveals that Bram... Read More

Captivating and graced with exquisite illustrations, Boria Sax’s "Avian Illuminations" blends history, folklore, art, literature, and ornithology to explain why birds are such an integral part of human dreams and aspirations. Birds... Read More

In Kelsey K. Sather’s powerful epic fantasy novel "Birth of the Anima", generations of women fight to restore the planet to her natural balance. More than two thousand years ago, Avni, the fifth Anima, helped to save her people from... Read More

Alison M. Parker’s salient academic biography of undersung civil rights and women’s rights activist Mary Eliza Church Terrell analyzes excerpts from Terrell’s diary, letters, and autobiography to depict how personal and public... Read More

Chaucer’s classic stories are given new life in this accessible translation. Just like the hems of skirts that rise and fall with the current fad, many books are loved in their time before quietly being put to rest on dusty shelves.... Read More