Music writer Martin Hawkins searches for the origins of Baton Rouge blues and the man posthumously credited with establishing the sound and the town on the global music scene, in Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge. Harmonica... Read More

Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir is a bit unusual as memoirs go—though it is the story of her life thus far, Kurzweil’s account is largely absent of the kind of physical or emotional traumas that too often seem to be a... Read More

This fast-moving thriller is also a surprising celebration of survival. Gary D. McGugan’s "Three Weeks Less a Day" is an international thriller whose protagonist is a breast cancer patient, though his illness is only one of many twists... Read More