"Singer Distance" is an exquisite first contact novel in which interplanetary communications expose the infinite and infinitesimal distances between human hearts. At the close of the nineteenth century, scientists carved out a... Read More
Teresa Lim’s memoir "The Interpreter’s Daughter" reveals hidden family secrets amid accounts of love, loss, migration, and memory. In 1935, Law traveled from his adopted home in Singapore to his native village in Canton to die.... Read More
In Caroline Kline’s "Mormon Women at the Crossroads", the stories of devout Mormon women in Mexico, Botswana, and the US are placed in conversation with church theology. The book is both about the interviewed women’s ways of thinking... Read More
In Elijah Kinch Spector’s brooding novel "Kalyna the Soothsayer", the end of the world is coming. Kalyna knows that her country is about to collapse into war and destruction, but she cannot flee. She is trapped in the service of the... Read More
A simple missing person’s case takes a far-right turn in Max Tomlinson’s novel "Line of Darkness". Colleen is known to law enforcement for being both an ex-felon and a private investigator. She’s also known for being involved in... Read More
A night market food stall owner becomes involved in a double homicide in Ed Lin’s novel Death Doesn’t Forget. Jing-nan just wants his food stall to be successful. If he could stop finding himself connected to homicide investigations,... Read More
An impulsive decision forces a clandestine order to take protective measures in Paraic O’Donnell’s surreal novel "The Maker of Swans". For as long as she can remember, Clara has lived at the manor house at the edge of the lake.... Read More
In "The Continuing Storm", Kai Erikson and Lori Peek discuss the short- and long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on its most vulnerable victims. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August of 2005, it inflicted devastating... Read More