"The Mightier Hudson" opens with a picturesque description of a smiling, diverse group of pedestrians crossing the Walkway Over the Hudson, a “linear park in the sky,” and an example of recent revitalization along the river’s... Read More

From the murky circumstances of her birth in Geneva in 1877 to her dramatic death in a flash flood in Ain Sefra, Algeria, Isabelle Eberhardt lived an unconventional life. At twenty, she unshackled herself from the “fetters” of modern... Read More

“There is hardly anything so elusive,” writes the celebrated Irish poet Eavan Boland, “as the way in which a poetic inheritance is sifted and re-arranged from one generation to the next.” This collection of essays tracks and... Read More

America has long been revered as a melting pot or a salad bowl, a nearly fabled place where almost everyone has come from somewhere else. As David Mura says in "The Chalk Circle"’s introduction, “America is and always has been... Read More

As with most great art, Kehinde Wiley’s portraits reflect the time and place in which they were created: in this case, current-day cities. They also comment on the history of portraiture, specifically upending traditional European... Read More

Endo is a young physician beginning his residency when an otherwise healthy woman recovering from a simple knee operation dies on his watch. A blood test he wanted to perform could have saved her life by identifying a burst appendix, but... Read More

The ten stories in Andrew Malan Milward’s "The Agriculture Hall of Fame" are set in “the center of the center of America”: Kansas. And they are all, in their own unique ways, wild, hopeful, and devastating. From “Quail Haven,... Read More

When the mutilated body of an American art model is discovered in the Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende late one night, local inspector Hector Diaz knows his life is about to become much more complicated. South of the border,... Read More