In Louise Finch’s insightful novel The Eternal Return of Clara Hart, a boy who’s stuck in a time loop confronts the events that led to the death of a classmate. For Spencer, the anniversary of his mom’s death is a painful day. At a... Read More

While New York City prepares for a hurricane, the staff and patients of a headache clinic brace against a storm of their own making in Amy Grace Loyd’s novel "The Pain of Pleasure". A doctor unpacks the consequences of prescribing joy... Read More

Henry wants to climb the plants and flowers in the garden with all the other snails, but Henry is different in one important way: he has no slime. Determined to find his own way to climb, Henry begins training; he drags pebbles, lifts... Read More

A generation trades clicks for activism in "Girlfriend on Mars", Deborah Willis’s incisive satirization of Anthropocene dissonance. Once an Olympic hopeful, Amber is now in her thirties and dead-ending it in British Columbia. She loves... Read More

Greg Marshall’s moving memoir "Leg" is about finding strength in family support. While applying for health insurance during graduate school, Marshall learned that his recognizable limp was a symptom of spastic cerebral palsy. He’d... Read More

Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition, the loss and resurgence of his ship, and memories of growing up in South Africa inform Darrel Bristow-Bovey’s entrancing literary memoir "Finding Endurance", about the romantic spirit of... Read More

Wes Nisker’s memoir "The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom" covers his search for spiritual meaning during a period of great economic, technological, and social change. Born during World War II and brought up as the only Jewish... Read More

Jenny Graham, who broke records when she circumnavigated the globe by bicycle, shares her story of courage and resilience in "Coffee First, Then the World". One of Graham’s strongest childhood memories is of learning to ride a bicycle... Read More