Kelly Ann Jacobson’s novel "Robin and Her Misfits" is a fresh take on Robin Hood, trading medieval outlaws for a band of queer women who pull off heists and seek safety and home with one another. Teenage Robin and Little John are best... Read More

Darren Walker’s "From Generosity to Justice" charts a bold new path for changing the world by giving. Walker says that the contemporary world is as rife with inequality as Andrew Carnegie’s period was when he published The Gospel of... Read More

The universe is strange and wonderful, as Jillian Scudder reveals in "The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries", a book that balances its reverence for science with respect for its audience’s intelligence. Did you know that the moon... Read More

In Steven Heighton’s masterful posthumously published story collection "Instructions for the Drowning", men’s psyches are on display. These layered and intricate stories balloon out their denouéments until they are taut.... Read More