“Every disease has its own narrative,” psychiatrist Anne Skomorowsky writes in this lucid, comprehensive history of Fragile X, a genetic mutation that causes a range of physical and behavioral problems. Introducing affected families... Read More

"Cutthroat" is an intriguing physician’s memoir that makes passionate arguments against how the health care system prioritizes profit over people. Steven J. Cyr’s "Cutthroat" is a thought-provoking memoir about an orthopedic... Read More

Lars Mytting’s "The Sixteen Trees of the Somme" is an intricate and evocative literary mystery about an orphaned Norwegian man whose family history is caught in between two world wars and the German Jewish sides of WWII. Growing up on... Read More

"The Murders of Moisés Ville" covers gruesome murders in a fledgling Jewish community in late-nineteenth-century Argentina. Alongside its details of the crimes, the book chronicles Javier Sinay’s research experiences into them in... Read More

Dan Grunfeld’s moving memoir covers sports and family, as both he and his father had successful basketball careers. What makes Grunfeld’s story all the more compelling, though, is the fact that his grandmother narrowly survived the... Read More

While false claims of voter fraud have become common in recent years, the 2018 congressional midterm for North Carolina’s Ninth District featured the rare case of actual fraud, with illegal ballots from rural Bladen County causing the... Read More

Personal testimonials reveal the lived truths of communist Albania in Margo Rejmer’s oral history book "Mud Sweeter than Honey". Of the communist states in Europe after World War II, Albania is less discussed. It was cut off from the... Read More

Written thirty years ago and now published posthumously, Adrian C. Louis’s novel "The Ghost Dancers" is about the violence that enables a father-son reunion. The Wilson family descends from a powerful medicine man, but the glory of the... Read More