The image of Abraham Joshua Heschel walking in pace with Martin Luther King Jr. to Selma is seared into the consciousness of every American Jew. Drawing on the Talmud, Jewish prophecy, and interreligious connections, he viewed God as... Read More

"An Oilman’s Chronicles" is a memoir that is emphatic in exulting what family love adds to life. Jerry G. Heller’s amiable memoir "An Oilman’s Chronicles" recounts how a bucolic Dutch childhood led toward an accomplished technical... Read More

Kateřina Tučková’s "Gerta" is a startling, significant historical novel set during and after the violent postwar expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. At the end of WWII, Gerta—the daughter of a disrespected Czech mother whom... Read More

Devastating and triumphant, "The Road to Delano" is a meticulous historical novel that honors the bravery and sacrifices of the UFW strikers and those who stood with them. In John DeSimone’s gripping historical novel "The Road to... Read More

With entertaining waggishness toward university environments, "Murder 101" is a witty mystery novel. In Richard Boyer’s witty mystery novel "Murder 101", a death among the intelligentsia sets university tongues wagging and puts one... Read More

Southern culinary historian and chef Michael W. Twitty’s "Rice" celebrates a global and Southern staple with recipes rooted in tradition and tweaked to meet the times. Rice, Twitty notes, “changes outfits well to suit the party.”... Read More

“How many miles can a person walk for peace?” wonders a woman who wants to counter the world’s inclination toward war. She sets a goal—twenty-five thousand miles—and spends years reaching, then exceeding, it, reliant on kind... Read More

Every day, Corey wears a cape to school, and every day, Billy, the school bully, takes his cape away. When a curious classmate asks Corey why he persists, he is so inspired by Corey’s answer that a trend begins: now everyone wears... Read More