Knitting with giant yarn and fiber has been popular for years, but fat fibers can be quite expensive and difficult to care for. Knit and crochet designer Erin Black wants to make big projects more accessible and usable in the home, so... Read More

"The Fat Kitchen" will give industrious home cooks a new appreciation for fat. The low-fat trend is a thing of the past, and this book revives appreciation for the once-villainized nutrient that’s much more balanced, healthy, and... Read More

Father Krikor Balakian’s memoir of his 1909 visit to the medieval Armenian city of Ani is newly available in English as "The Ruins of Ani". Translator Peter Balakian highlights the historical importance of this text, which documents... Read More

Michael A. Messner’s "Guys Like Me" profiles a veteran from each of the five most recent American wars, documenting the experiences that led them to activism and advocacy for peace. Messner, the Vietnam-protesting grandson of a World... Read More

Lena Mahmoud constructs a subversive story about love and marriage in her novel "Amreekiya", a feminist Palestinian project that follows its headstrong lead, Isra, through struggle and loss. This is a tense examination of what a marriage... Read More

An unusual mixture of biography, comedy, action, and analysis, "Explosions" takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to one of the most popular but artistically dismissed film directors working today. Mathieu Poulin positions Michael Bay as a... Read More

Relatable families face serious traumas in this novel that mixes elements of a thriller with those of a romance, and tops these off with everyday events. The rape of a little girl morphs into a hunt for her abuser in Shawn M. Beasley’s... Read More

It’s the near future, and the men of the world are going, going, gone. Aminder Dhaliwal’s "Woman World", adapted from her serialized webcomic, moves quickly from the unheeded warnings of a geneticist couple who notice that men are... Read More