In "Language City", Ross Perlin argues that the quintessential New Yorker is neither an artist from Brooklyn nor a Wall Street banker, but a working-class multilingual immigrant living in Queens. His book weaves personal stories with... Read More

Sociologist Casey Stockstill’s "False Starts" exposes how racial inequality in the US begins in preschool. Stockstill spent two years observing the daycare provided by two top-ranked preschools in Madison, Wisconsin: a public Head... Read More

In Eskor David Johnson’s thrilling literary novel Pay as You Go, a barber careens through an imaginary metropolis in search of a place to call home. Two months after moving to sprawling Polis, Slide shares an apartment with an... Read More

Carol Mitchell’s novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ moves between the United States and Caribbean islands in search of buried memories. Amaya has vague memories of her life in Jamaica before she moved to Trinidad and met her husband,... Read More

Jeffrey S. Gurock’s "Marty Glickman" is an encompassing biography of the athlete, sportscaster, and mentor. Born in 1917, Glickman grew up in New York’s Bronx and Brooklyn neighborhoods. A star high school athlete, he was recruited... Read More

Christopher Miller’s immersive contemporary history book "The War Came to Us" chronicles Ukraine’s fight for freedom and independence. Looking for a new challenge after his freelance journalism career stalled, Miller joined the Peace... Read More

Guzel Yakhina’s spellbinding, fabulistic novel "A Volga Tale" views the Russian Revolution from within a small agrarian settlement. In the pastoral time before the Revolution, Jacob is a schoolteacher who lives alone in Gnadenthal... Read More

"The Rooster House", Victoria Belim’s poignant memoir, unveils the Ukrainian roots of a family mystery. Born in Ukraine, Belim moved to the United States with her family when she was fifteen. Decades later, while living in Brussels,... Read More