Philip C. Almond’s fascinating and comprehensive cultural study of Mary Magdalene reviews hundreds of interpretations of the revered saint and explores the creative tension between her complex tradition and the history of religious... Read More

Memory, family, and generational trauma guide Marina Jarre’s steps in her Holocaust memoir "Return to Latvia". Jarre was young when her parents separated. She left Latvia and grew up in Italy with her Italian mother; she maintained no... Read More

"Travels in the Americas" is Albert Camus’s lively, intimate travel record, covering his encounters abroad as well as his inner world with Gallic flair. An astute observer of people and places and an avid participant in the life around... Read More

Filled with dramatic, often violent, seventeenth-century court and clergy intrigues, Bronwen McShea’s "La Duchesse" is meticulous—the “first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot.” Vignerot would have been a minor rural... Read More

Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner, and Éric Pincas’s "Lady Sapiens" is a vibrant history book about how ancient women lived and what they contributed to society. Steeped in interdisciplinary scholarship, "Lady Sapiens" synthesizes... Read More

Written by a survivor of the Cambodian genocide, "Under the Naga Tail" is a brilliant, comprehensive memoir. Mae Bunseng Taing’s devastating memoir "Under the Naga Tail" covers his experiences during the Cambodian genocide. Mae was in... Read More

Donal Fallon’s guide to Dublin, "Three Castles Burning", investigates the city in search of places where the past and present meet. Based on the popular podcast of the same name, the book concerns itself with twelve Dublin streets and... Read More

Ana Maria Spagna’s fascinating true crime book "Pushed" investigates the possible mass murder of a group of Chinese immigrants by a mob of Indigenous people. While a mob may have pushed the immigrants to their deaths, the book explores... Read More