Bullfighting’s place in the world of performative art, as well as its morality, are discussed intelligently. A young woman with a passion for bullfighting navigates the prejudiced world of the 1950s in this novel of growing up.... Read More

The story is full of the warmth and humor that Landvik is known for. The ladies of Lorna Landvik’s Patty Jane’s House of Curl are back and just as eccentric as ever. In "Once in a Blue Moon Lodge", the focus shifts to Patty Jane’s... Read More

The story’s most heartbreaking disclosures are powerful in their indictment of the unrealistic expectations placed upon struggling families. In Lisa Ko’s "The Leavers", departure is sometimes a matter of fleeing, and sometimes a... Read More

This memoir offers a clear-eyed, engaging look at one serial entrepreneur’s journey. Globetrotting entrepreneur Stanley A. Weiss wrestles with what it means to be a success in his expansive, chatty memoir, "Being Dead Is Bad for... Read More

Provocative and profound but eminently readable, "Strike Anywhere" demonstrates a critic of high order, unrestrained. It’s great fun watching Lista play with matches. Michael Lista casts his discerning eye toward poetry, television,... Read More

If climate change has you down and you’re traumatized by the thought of another critical species being lost to extinction, here’s something to think about: all your heartfelt empathy doesn’t do diddly-squat to help the planet.... Read More

How do we communicate the ideas and hopes that mean the most to us—and at what risk? That question recurs throughout Kaitlyn Greenidge’s debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman. The novel focuses on the Freeman family, tapped to... Read More

Tate succeeds in luring the audience by narrating as much from the heart as from the head. Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader is an immersive, fluid, and genre-bending collection of commentary, essays, and exposition of the self, a beautiful... Read More