Jones’s story has come full circle: she’s clean, out of the closet, and back home. For Sammi Jones, an MFA program in creative writing may have taken her to the inauspicious location of Fargo, North Dakota, but it was joining a... Read More

Combining practical medical advice with answers to “squidgy” questions, Knox’s guide is suited to anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of all kinds of sex. With one simple, humane assertion—“Men and women are not machines on... Read More

This is a lively and thoughtful hybrid of detective story and psychological literary fiction. Daniel Taylor’s "Do We Not Bleed?" is presented as a detective story, but that’s only half of its appeal. This is a witty and thoughtful... Read More

Hazy, enigmatic, disturbingly uncivilized, the millennium-long Middle Ages followed the wondrous Greek and Roman eras, seemingly unable to rise above the competing mischief of Roman and Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and the... Read More

As a physician, Robert Alan McNutt comes from a position of knowledge and power, but he knows that the key to true health is to share knowledge rather than hoard it, to offer power rather than cling to it. For many patients, when a... Read More

The cozy mystery "A Pinch of Poison" hits all the right notes: a sweet-seeming and privileged all-girls school with a secret, a deadly charity luncheon, and a shrewd, proper young lady with just the right amount of tact and intelligence... Read More

"A Giant Squid in Nylon" is an unusual story full of diverse characters, with murder and mayhem on the side. Several individual stories overlap and eventually connect in "A Giant Squid in Nylon" by Siafu, a sprawling, raucous work... Read More

Alona Frankel’s simply titled memoir, "Girl", presents World War II and the Holocaust through the eyes and imagination of a young Jewish girl trying to make sense of daily experience and the world being torn apart around her. Frankel... Read More