The Turkey is Not the Only Thing Getting Roasted is a lighthearted essay collection that examines how people across the US navigate a notorious annual gathering. Robert Okine’s wisecracking essay collection The Turkey is Not the Only... Read More

Shira Gorshman’s piquant historical novel Hannah’s Sheep and Cattle nestles an abiding love story amid the interwar upheavals of Soviet Russia. In 1930, on a Jewish commune on the wide Crimean steppe, Hanah is twenty-three, the... Read More

Michael W. Twitty’s masterful cookbook "Recipes from the American South" includes thoughtful historical considerations on the “collision of cultures” that inform its recipes from a vibrant, distinctive culinary region. Breads,... Read More

In Kaethe Schwehn’s numinous historical novel "The Gospel of Salome", an aging physician is asked about her connection to Jesus of Nazareth. In 38 CE, Salome, an elderly Greek woman and physician with a thriving clinic in Alexandria,... Read More