The 2014 Crimean war becomes the backdrop of a more personal drama in Kalani Pickhart’s novel "I Will Die in a Foreign Land". In late 2013, Ukraine explodes into political violence, which is made worse when Russia annexes the Crimean... Read More

"Stewards of Humanity" is a memoir about healing through—and from—humanitarian work. Robert Séamus Macpherson illuminates the hazards, rewards, and hard work of providing humanitarian aid in his memoir "Stewards of Humanity".... Read More

"American Tapestry" mines family stories for an informative, down-to-earth trek through America’s past. Pat Speth Sherman explores two centuries of American history through the eyes of her ancestors in her generational biography... Read More

Written thirty years ago and now published posthumously, Adrian C. Louis’s novel "The Ghost Dancers" is about the violence that enables a father-son reunion. The Wilson family descends from a powerful medicine man, but the glory of the... Read More

In "The Isolation Artist", Bob Keyes explores the tumultuous life and death of an influential artist. Robert Indiana is best remembered for his rendering of the word “LOVE” in bold type, the first two letters atop the last two, the... Read More

Characters find unconventional ways to cope (or to avoid coping) in David Clerson’s short story collection "To See Out the Night". In the collection: an unemployed nightwatchman convinces himself he is turning into an ape. A lonely... Read More

A young woman struggles with an inexplicable malady and the weight of her family history in Joy Sorman’s novel "Life Sciences". Ninon has always known about the family curse: every eldest daughter will at some point be stricken by a... Read More

In Carl de Souza’s novel "Kaya Days", a simple errand leads a teenager into a days-long odyssey. Santee leaves her house one afternoon to bring her brother, Ram, home from school, only to be told he is missing. Her search puts her in... Read More