Jan Brokken’s history text "The Just" documents a rescue operation to save Jews from the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. When Jan Zwartendijk became the branch manager of the Dutch company Philips in Lithuania, he had no idea... Read More

Ruminations on life and art abound in Mario Levrero’s work of autofiction, "The Luminous Novel". An author’s dream of financial independence comes true when he receives a generous stipend with no strings attached. Suddenly he has the... Read More

The lives of two women become intertwined across generations in Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s historical novel "Frieda’s Song". In 1935, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a Jewish psychoanalyst, leaves Nazi Germany for the United States, where she... Read More

Jen Gunter’s "The Menopause Manifesto" is a self-help guide through menopause for all women of a certain age. Menopause is commonplace and complicated at the same time. Shrouded in myth and peppered with prejudice, it is not often... Read More

The fate of Earth hangs in the balance in Gerald Brennan’s alternate history novel "Infinite Blues". The year is 1968, and the Cold War is in a deep freeze. An astronaut arrives at a space station orbiting Earth. He is there on a... Read More

Amy Nathan’s inspiring book covers two families on opposite sides of the legacy of Jim Crow. On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, an Black shoemaker from New Orleans, bought a first class train ticket to Covington, Louisiana. When the train... Read More

In Dan Allen’s humorous coming-of-age tale, social expectations are balanced against the need for personal freedom. Peter Barnes is fed up. From the day he was born, his and Jaylee Yates’s lives have been linked together for no other... Read More

Norris Hundley and Donald C. Jackson’s "Heavy Ground" focuses on the events surrounding the St. Francis Dam disaster. On March 12th, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, and twelve billion gallons of silted water crashed through the... Read More