In Jackary Salem’s novel "Where the Lightning Goes", a girl breaks free from her prison and seeks a castle in the sky, hoping to find what she’s lost. After being trapped in a house in the sky with other “survivors” for years... Read More

Musicians converge on a single stage for a contest that will separate technical skill from true genius in "Honeybees and Distant Thunder", a novel that cements Riku Onda as a virtuosic talent. How does music make you feel? For one... Read More

An aging Israeli academic reckons with his family’s crimes—and his own—in Agur Schiff’s novel Professor Schiff’s Guilt. Professor Schiff is in no way proud of the fact that his ancestor made his fortune as a slave trader. But... Read More

In "Return to My Trees", Matthew Yeomans contemplates what can be done about the separation between humans and nature during a 300-mile hike through the woodlands of Wales. To benefit its citizens and the environment, the Welsh... Read More

Nico Slate’s memoir "Brothers" circles the question of race’s meaningingfulness and meaninglessness as a social construct as seen through the relationship of two siblings: one Black and one white. "Brothers" is a memento mori for... Read More

In Nothing Could Stop Her, Rona Arato tells the remarkable life story of trailblazing Jewish American journalist Ruth Gruber. Born in Brooklyn in 1911 to a Jewish family from Russia, Gruber was unstoppable from the start. Intelligent and... Read More

The thought-provoking and expert essays of "A New History of the American South" represent expansive views of Southern history—beyond the period-focused notions of the region that often appear in history and literature. Rather than... Read More

Mysterious mail initiates a family’s search for their buried truths in Anne Berest’s elegiac novel "The Postcard", which vivifies and honors the dead. At her first Seder well into her adulthood, Berest is confronted by an aspiring... Read More