The real question posed by Terence Lester’s thoughtful, inspirational Christian book "I See You" is whether we are willing to see ourselves in the faces of the poor and forgotten. Lester’s work succeeds both at comforting the... Read More

Thorpe Moeckel’s essay collection "Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw" captures the beauty of the land near two rivers. The naturalist’s month-by-month account of the year he lived on the watershed of two North Carolina rivers, the Eno... Read More

California—land of golden dreams, proud melting pot, home to both the poor and the unimaginably rich—is an amalgam. Her complexities are captured in the essays of Freeman’s: California, which reaches across time and cultures to... Read More

"Stealing Cinderella" is a true story of love triumphing against the odds. A fairy tale comes to life in "Stealing Cinderella", the true story of how Mark Diehl’s love for a South Korean girl brought them into life-or-death conflict... Read More

In Shane Hinton’s post-apocalyptic novella "Radio Dark", a horrifying epidemic creeps upon the known world, ending its normalcy in a flash and rendering people static. The affected freeze in place—holding buckets of minnows, idling... Read More

Nimble and effusive, the tales of Sam Reese’s "Come the Tide" are an aesthete’s paradise, moving from haunting snapshots toward often amorphous conclusions. There are bronzed commas of bodies, vines climbing walls like elaborate... Read More

For LGBTQ Christians, especially those in evangelical churches, the decision to come out can mean being shunned, dismissed from church leadership or service positions, and made to feel eternally excluded from God’s love. Despite these... Read More

Ari Silverman’s violent encounter with a neighborhood boy leaves him questioning himself in Aaron Hamburger’s "Nirvana Is Here", a coming-of-age novel set outside Detroit amid the rise of grunge. It is a nostalgic, wrenching... Read More