Tender and tortured in equal measure, Amy Crider’s "Disorder" is a mystery that gradually reveals itself to be a perceptive character study. In a wintry upstate New York town, literature student Diana has gone missing, and her roommate... Read More

In Clarence Boulay’s delicate, mesmeric novel "Tristan", a woman’s ardor on a volcanic island tests her emotional thresholds. From its seafaring opening aboard a lobster boat bound for rugged Tristan, a remote South Atlantic outpost,... Read More

In "The Contagion Next Time", Sandro Galea calls for improving public health—including the public’s understanding of public health—following the revelations brought about by Covid-19. The book’s overriding question is of how to... Read More

Keegan Lester’s lyrical memoir "Perfect Dirt" concerns what and where “home” really is. The narrative, composed of poetic vignettes, zips between Lester’s childhood in California, his creative tour across West Virginia, his work... Read More

A young woman figures out how to belong in Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel "Win Me Something". Willa isn’t passionate about being a nanny, but it beats working at another coffee shop. Her latest charge is Bijou, a precocious nine-year-old next... Read More

The crucial World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf is detailed through the eyes of American sailors and pilots in The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers. The Battle of Leyte Gulf, and within it the Battle of Samar, is not as famous as other... Read More

Captivating and graced with exquisite illustrations, Boria Sax’s "Avian Illuminations" blends history, folklore, art, literature, and ornithology to explain why birds are such an integral part of human dreams and aspirations. Birds... Read More

An East German expat drinks his way through a neverending identity crisis in Wolfgang Hilbig’s historical novel "The Interim". C. is a man of contradictions. He is a writer who cannot write. He was granted permission to leave... Read More