Oney’s articles offer intimate portraits of fascinating, heroic men. Across forty years, Steve Oney has written numerous articles for national magazines concentrating on the challenges that men face. Consider this book, carefully... Read More

With its voracious appetite for pop culture, Garrett’s book is a great reminder that there’s more to life than just being alive. Gut-wrenching, stomach-churning, and mind-boggling, zombies are a perfect metaphor for many aspects of... Read More

Fishere’s novel is a gripping portrait of the tenuous spaces that marginalized populations are made to occupy. Ezzedine C. Fishere’s Embrace on the Brooklyn Bridge traverses the memories and inner struggles of a group of Egyptian... Read More

"Grassroots Zen" is an enlightened, pragmatic guidebook that will deepen and enliven spiritual practice. In "Grassroots Zen", Perle Besserman and Manfred Steger offer an interpretation of Zen that is approachable and uniquely American.... Read More

"Keeping Place" offers alternative sites within a world that often feels divided—places where home really matters. Jen Pollock Michel’s Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home is a welcome antidote to a distressing news... Read More

Little’s is, above all, a human story about a man who fought for justice and fair treatment for workers. Both a work of history and biography, Jane Little Botkin’s "Frank Little and the IWW" views the early days of the US labor... Read More

"Scandinavians" engages with the explorer’s spirit that still sheaths the north lands in romance. Robert Ferguson’s "Scandinavians" is a work that is certain to delight curious adventurers as it captures rich cultural histories with... Read More

This peek inside the massive Manhattan project is fascinating to read. In her highly readable "Polonium in the Playhouse", Linda Carrick Thomas sheds light on a deliciously eccentric piece of WWII home-front history—the transformation... Read More