Alicia Muñoz’s "Stop Overthinking Your Relationship" highlights the problem of relationship rumination—and charts a path toward healthier relationships. The book focuses on how repetitive negative thinking absorbs too much of the... Read More

With pathos and aplomb, travel writer Mark Chesnut’s enchanting book "Prepare for Departure" gathers essays about his aging mother and growing up in the 1970s as part of a single-parent household. Chesnut’s road trips and flights are... Read More

M. S. King’s "Dad Spelled Backward" chronicles his and his wife’s frustrating yet fulfilling quest to have a baby. King, a New York dentist and comedian, was in his fifties when he met his wife, Gaby. Though, when King was younger,... Read More

"Ivy Lodge" is a resonant memoir that looks beyond the “opulent facade” of a mid-century family’s stately home. Built in the 1800s, Linda Murphy Marshall’s childhood home bore the distinguished name “Ivy Lodge.” In 1960,... Read More

Jill C. Dardig and William L. Heward’s "Let’s Make a Contract" presents tools for reaching parent-child agreements. Sharing the insights and skills needed to craft contracts between parents and children, so that both can get what... Read More

Sociologist Gillian Ranson’s "Front-Wave Boomers" concerns what’s facing those on the verge of “(very) old age.” Interrogating the concerns of baby boomers—a group brimming with vivacity and ideals, even as they face the... Read More

Through her lyrical memoir "This or Something Better", Elisa Stancil Levine revisits painful events from her past and endeavors to become more empathetic. Levine’s story of resilience is framed by an account of a fire in California... Read More

In "Linea Nigra", a fragmentary work of cultural commentary, Jazmina Barrera investigates pregnancy as both a physical reality and a liminal state. The linea nigra, a stripe of dark hair down a pregnant woman’s belly, is a potent... Read More