Valérie Perrin’s "Tata" is a bewitching novel about found family and the transformative power of love. Agnes mistook her Aunt Colette for being a “simple and linear” woman whose life was “devoid of mystery.” She loved her... Read More

For those wondering why another book on Jerusalem is needed, Jodi Magness’s "Jerusalem through the Ages" provides an eloquent answer based in archaeology, from the biblical era through the crusades of the twelfth century. The book... Read More

"Journey into Europe" is a crash course on modern European thought regarding Islam and Muslim immigration. In "Journey into Europe", Akbar Ahmed takes the temperature of Europe’s Muslims via interviews in which they describe the... Read More

This gorgeous, complex, and heartbreaking Brazilian masterpiece is full of lurid turns and surprising reveals. Lúcio Cardoso’s lurid and voluminous masterpiece "Chronicle of the Murdered House" follows the unraveling of the Meneses... Read More

The new English translation of Oliver Wieviorka’s "The French Resistance" is a hefty, commodious volume allowing for the full breadth of the author’s sophisticated scholarship. This is not a one-sided account of the French resistance... Read More

These stories, all rich in both character and detail, don’t conform to a set genre or approach, letting their Jewish themes link narratives that have rich differences. "The New Diaspora" is an ambitious project, bringing together... Read More

These authors advance a theory of mineral deficiencies, rather than genetics, as cause of diseases. Calling upon the research and theories of Dr. Joel Wallach, "Epigenetics" contends that many diseases currently considered genetic in... Read More

Although most Americans have some knowledge of the history of the civil and women’s rights movements, comparatively few possess awareness of the trials and tribulations and subsequent self-determination of this country’s largest... Read More