Longing permeates Donaldson’s lines, transferring to his readership. Jesse Donaldson’s "On Homesickness" is a lovely, nostalgic tribute to the author’s boyhood home, delivered in a series of brief and poetic vignettes. Donaldson... Read More

Every event is like a tabloid headline in this engrossing memoir, written by a former spy. Who killed John F. Kennedy? If you elect to believe Marita Lorenz—who survived Bergen-Belsen, abandonment in the Amazon, and torrid affairs with... Read More

Sketching out a cross-time search for a meaningful connection, "The Madeleine Project" is a sweet, respectful ode to an ordinary life. In a time when platforms like Twitter seem more dangerous than hopeful, Clara Beaudoux’s magnificent... Read More

The respect that Erickson evinces both for the God of her chosen tradition, and for the gods that came before, is scintillating. Travel writer Lori Erickson—once a Wiccan, now a deacon, whose spirit animal is ferocious—is on a... Read More

Ikard’s book is an essential wake-up call to all white Americans who are not actively engaged in combating racism. In "Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs", David Ikard, director of Africana studies at the University... Read More

"Naked We Came" is an emotionally austere and endlessly surprising thriller that brings new depth to the Jake Travis series. Robert Lane’s "Naked We Came" finds the rakish and irresistible Jake Travis back in the thick of unfortunate... Read More

Hodel persists with grace in this continuing story of Tevye’s second daughter. Alexandra Silber’s acting credits include rounds on Broadway and in the West End as two of Tevye’s daughters in Fiddler on the Roof. Hodel, the... Read More

Donath’s study fills a gap in discussions of women’s lives and choices. Orna Donath’s "Regretting Motherhood" is a revealing study of women who dare to speak the “unspeakable”—that their experiences of motherhood are less... Read More