"The Madness of Fear" offers a fresh perspective on a misunderstood psychiatric challenge. People may think they know what catatonia is, but they are probably wrong. That’s the first of many surprises in the scholarly but fascinating... Read More

Mary Ann Esposito is the host of PBS’s "Ciao Italia". Her latest cookbook is the capstone of twenty-eight years of Italian travel and food broadcasting. An engaging cultural translator, Esposito emphasizes regional recipes and distinct... Read More

New Orleans-based painter Auseklis Ozols spent decades producing beautiful work that usually depicts real-life subject matter. His work is now celebrated in John Kemp’s book, which features dozens of Ozols’s works and shows his... Read More

Baking is chemistry; baking is alchemy; baking is craft. Brian Hart Hoffman’s Bake from Scratch: Artisan Recipes for the Home Baker, Volume Two celebrates all of these aspects with more than 600 recipes from the sophomore year of Bake... Read More

The Russian Far East is little known to outsiders, but Sharon Hudgins vividly captures a fair slice of its fascinating food culture in "T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks". Hudgins and her husband Tom, Texans and professors both, taught in... Read More

The power of Weinstock’s prose is undeniable, and his passion for the subject matter is infectious. Jerrold J. Weinstock’s Insult to Our Planet & the Florida Keys is an impassioned call to action for environmental justice.... Read More

Richard Robbins’s "Overtaken by the Night" is an extremely detailed account of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky’s life. His story spans not just one, but several of the most tumultuous periods in modern Russian history, and Robbins nicely... Read More

Tyree’s oil paintings of Polynesian models have become iconic types; Cook’s collection is a fitting tribute. Ralph Burke Tyree was the kind of artist whose work will be familiar to many who don’t know him by name, as his paintings... Read More