In "A Nimble Arc", art historian and educator Emilie Boone shifts focus from photographer James Van Der Zee’s renowned Harlem Renaissance work to his role in documenting and advancing “quotidian” Black American life. Van Der Zee... Read More

"Lost Seeds" is a piquing novel that addresses various facets of historical racism. In Teresa Mosley Sebastian’s gripping historical novel "Lost Seeds", two brothers choose different paths to move beyond their family’s tragic legacy... Read More

Two sisters form an unexpected bond in the formidable Adirondacks in the beautiful novel A Woman’s Guide to Search and Rescue. In Mary Carroll Moore’s novel A Woman’s Guide to Search and Rescue, estranged half-sisters reconnect and... Read More

"The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee" compiles the shorter works of the South Asian American author, showcasing Mukherjee’s exquisite flow of language and diverse range. Born to a Bengali Brahmin family, Mukherjee left... Read More

In "Punk Art History", Danish art historian Marie Arleth Skov explores punk culture’s influence on the art of the 1970s. The book crystallizes the troubled social climate behind the punk movement—a malaise of urban decay and stagnant... Read More

Laura Yares’s "Jewish Sunday Schools" is a complex survey of Jewish immigrant religious education that notes its influence on society. The book details the concerns of early nineteenth-century Jewish American communities regarding the... Read More

In Norman Lock’s historical novel "The Ice Harp", Ralph Waldo Emerson struggles with encroaching dementia and the incontrovertible realities of aging. In 1879, Emerson is seventy-six and troubled. Once heralded as the Sage of Concord,... Read More

Intimate and revelatory, Natalie MacLean’s memoir "Wine Witch on Fire" covers her career as a wine writer, as well as the unexpected end of her marriage. MacLean was raised by a single mother in Canada. Because her father’s presence... Read More