This is a lovely and loving take on David’s early story. Paul Boorstin’s "David and the Philistine Woman" fleshes out the David and Goliath story as never before, populating it with complex personalities from both sides of the divide... Read More

"PTL" is a fascinating study of the ignominious collapse of an evangelical empire. John Wigger’s "PTL" covers the famed Christian media empire of Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker. Theirs is a story of tremendous inventiveness, and of an even... Read More

Ndiaye’s novel is haunting in its strangeness and is pointed in its warnings—that happiness cannot come at the expense of one’s core. Eerie, involving, and surreal, Marie Ndiaye’s "My Heart Hemmed In" follows a once-respected... Read More

A woman with wings is pulled down from the stars by the despairing god of the river, and is chained to the earth by his jealous love. Simultaneously, a village doctor’s affection becomes a place of refuge for a young woman with a... Read More

"The Jewish Bible" is a fascinating look at a work whose materiality is shown to be inseparable from its meaning. David Stern’s The Jewish Bible: A Material History is a carefully plotted, awe-awakening journey through the evolution... Read More

"Road to Isabelle" is a swift and involving look at the vicious engagements of the First Indochina War. J. C. Bourg’s "Road to Isabelle" is a highly atmospheric account of the First Indochina War, as seen through the eyes of four... Read More

Hall’s volume draws meaning and continuity from the vast and diverse body of P. K. Irwin’s visual art. Within a series dedicated to the work of the lauded Canadian poet P. K. Page, Michèle Rackham Hall’s The Art of P.K. Irwin... Read More

The General’s Women imagines the most of a wartime relationship around which speculation swirled; the effects are irresistible. Susan Wittig Albert’s The General’s Women is an engrossing and humanizing account of a love that... Read More