With an easygoing style, Joseph Piercy recommends one hundred notable works of world literature through the medicinal lens of bibliotherapy. As a mental health practice, bibliotherapy centralizes writing and literature as a means to help... Read More

Laura B. McGrath’s "Middlemen" is a thorough, diverting investigation of the role literary agents play in the creation of book markets and reader tastes. “No figure has been more significant, and yet more invisible, in American... Read More

In her enlightening book "Reader Bot", Naomi S. Baron examines the benefits and sacrifices of human dependency on AI for reading, writing, and research. Noting that AI has exploded in the past few years, offering to make work easier,... Read More

"Bad Indians Book Club", Patty Krawec’s compelling work of literary criticism, centers stories written by marginalized people. Focused on Indigenous culture and showing that reading is essential and that addressing the hard truths of... Read More

Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s "Jim" is an encyclopedic work of literary criticism that celebrates Mark Twain’s classic. "Jim" contends that readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as racist have missed Twain’s use of irony to... Read More

Natalie Lawrence’s work of cultural inquiry, "Enchanted Creatures", analyzes fabled and mythical beasts across human history, folklore, and literature, asking why monsters persist in human imaginations. Organized into sections on... Read More

Memoirist Elissa Altman’s encouraging writer’s guide is about pushing beyond doubt, fear, repression, and shame to craft stories of relevance and truth. A teacher of memoir writing, Altman details the integral concept of... Read More

The Book Lover’s Almanac is a delightful daily compendium of literary facts and anecdotes. The monthly sections open with a rundown of prominent authors’ births and deaths and the dates when famous works were first issued or... Read More