Call me Immigrant. In your country, I do the essential work to keep your living standards high, even as you jeer at me and pay me nowhere near the same dollars you do to your exalted citizens, for the same work. Of late, I am coming into... Read More

"The Other Side of the Wall" is a passionate, compelling book that broadens conversations regarding Israel-Palestine to include Palestinian Christians. Theologian and Palestinian Christian Munther Isaac addresses the conflict with a... Read More

"Once You Know" is a complex, gripping novel about how that which is unacknowledged can do the most damage. A family is left reeling after a father’s unforgivable betrayal in Madeleine Van Hecke’s novel "Once You Know". As she... Read More

Drawing on personal experiences and cultural analysis, Jaswinder Bolina’s essay collection "Of Color" is an important examination of race in the US. The son of Sikh Punjabi immigrants by way of London, Bolina writes about navigating a... Read More

French writer Jean Giono’s fascinating "Occupation Journal" was kept while he lived under Nazi rule. In 1943, Giono was a respected novelist with a family to care for. He wrote his novels from Provence, drawing upon the local culture,... Read More

In Muriel Barbery’s bewitching "A Strange Country", elves and humans cross the boundaries that separate their lands, hoping to correct a travesty that’s playing out in the “theater of worlds.” In a land of mists, an unusual elf... Read More

Thorough and meticulous, William Rawlings’s "Six Inches Deeper" chronicles the disappearance and discovery of a murdered woman, the murder investigation, the trial, and its aftermath. This journalistic work concerns the August 1972... Read More

"The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree" is a fantastical tale set in post-revolutionary Iran that concentrates on a family’s tragedies, loves, and losses. It’s a work of magical realism with plenty to unpack. Bahar’s family... Read More