Sim Butler’s incisive memoir "And the Dragons Do Come" is about raising a transgender child in the Deep South. Butler assumed that his firstborn child was a boy. But after years of her fervent insistence that she was a girl, coupled... Read More

Women, blue-collar workers, and Indigenous people in Mexico respond in hallucinatory ways to the violence of men and abusive authority figures in Elena Garro’s intricate short story collection "The Week of Colors". Incorporating... Read More

Linda Yael Schiller’s spiritual guide "Ancestral Dreaming" takes a fresh approach to healing inherited wounds and trauma. Drawing on the science of epigenetics to support its thesis, the book asserts that unhealed wounds and unresolved... Read More

Barbara Beery’s cheerful children’s cookbook "Ooh La La!" pairs fresh flavors with classic French recipes to inspire international palates. From ratatouille to quiche Lorraine, gratin to crème brûlée, French comfort foods are... Read More

Set in Christmas, Florida, J. Kent Holloway’s "The Knives Before Christmas" is a magical murder mystery novel about a grisly death in a cheery town. When Thomas’s protégé, Trixie, is implicated in the murder of her father, Thomas,... Read More

Giles Tremlett’s biography of Francisco Franco traces his fast rise through Spain’s military to take lasting totalitarian control of the nation. Focusing on a span from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until Franco’s death... Read More

Worlds are constructed from tender possibilities in Theodora Goss’s alluring, unforgettable short story collection "Letters from an Imaginary Country". “You’re going to be dead in twenty-four hours. Would you like to save the... Read More

In the linked stories of Jennifer Sears’s uncompromising book "What Mennonite Girls Are Good For", sexual abuse and mental health issues beleaguer a devout family. The stories orbit Ruthie, who spends her 1970s-1980s upbringing in... Read More