What happens when you combine UFOs, a vintage bottle of wine, and time travel? You get Antoine Laurain’s fantasy novel, "Vintage 1954". Four newfound friends—Hubert Larnaudie, a property manager; Julien, a bartender; Magalie, a... Read More

Twists and turns abound in Lisa Naffziger’s teen suspense thriller "Minus", in which a college bound heroine finds her life unraveling around her. Beck is driving to the University of Chicago with her father, Gill. He seems like a... Read More

Margreet de Heer conducts a sometimes historical, sometimes personal tour of love and its many forms and definitions in her Love: A Discovery in Comics. De Heer begins by introducing seven kinds of love, with examples from Greek and... Read More

Little known outside of Palestine, Sophie Halaby was a Russian-Arab painter, Jerusalemite, and member of a prominent Christian family. Laura S. Schor’s "Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem" is a careful, elegant portrait that highlights the... Read More

In every way, this eye-opening post-apocalyptic tale is a true page-turner. Andy Giesler’s "The Nothing Within" is a fresh and ingenious take on the post-apocalyptic novel. In North America in the twenty-second century, an apocalyptic... Read More

In Andrew Post’s thrilling and unsettling novel "Chop Shop", characters are sent into a churning mass of violence and gore. Ex-con Frank Goode returns to his medical roots, operating out of his kitchen for various criminal elements.... Read More

Hearts of our People catalogs the first major exhibition focused on Native American women’s art. Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves, and incorporating essays by many Native artists and scholars, this is a landmark... Read More

A technological utopia collapses into a prison of nightmares in Louis Greenberg’s science fiction thriller "Green Valley", a breakneck novel that explores what remains of human nature in a world of virtual reality. When society grows... Read More