Can a victim be complicit in her own oppression? In this dense and historical novel, Carlos Franz attempts to answer that question through the story of Laura Larco, a philosophy professor residing in Berlin who is called back to her... Read More

Written in 1940 and now published for the first time with illustrations in a folk-art style, Stein’s fanciful journey through the alphabet features a short story in verse about each letter. The author’s postmodern approach to... Read More

Love ’em or hate ‘em (there is no in-between!), the New York Yankees have dominated one hundred years of professional baseball like no other team has dominated any other sport. The twenty-seven World Series titles and forty American... Read More

"On the Hurricane Coast" is a memoir-cum-travelogue that tells the story of journalist, photographer, and Philadelphia-native Douglas Bennett Lee’s experiences of living on and reporting from the Central Gulf Coast. Though a northerner... Read More

“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy,” said Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the many past masters we meet in "Counterplay", by Robert Desjarlais. A tournament chess player and professor of anthropology at Sarah... Read More

In literature, slight moments can often hold more power and import than lengthy tomes. Such is the case with Brigitte Kronauer’s short, connected stories that offer brief yet profound glimpses into the life of Rita, a narrator judged... Read More

“She’d said the wrong thing. She knew that immediately. Salimovic’s thin lips twisted into a smile and Jade realized with a sinking heart that the trafficker had realized she was bluffing,” writes Jassy Mackenzie in her gripping... Read More

Among the bookstores’ crowded cookbook shelves, Patricia Lewis Mote’s Great Menus: Seasonal Recipes for Entertaining should clearly standout. “Patsy,” as she signed her introduction, has assembled an easy-to-follow guide to meal... Read More