These eight books each explore wholeness from a different perspective: Niles Elliot Goldstein’s Eight Questions of Faith looks to the Bible and to Jewish tradition for guidance and grounding. This turning to faith finds support in... Read More

At best, historical fiction helps you experience a time and place with the seeming precision of memory or nostalgia. You may not have actually been there to see the events but the talented novelist offers a close second. In Marines of... Read More

Breaking the Curse / A Memoir about Trauma, Healing, and Italian Witchcraft / Alex DiFrancesco / Seven Stories Press / Softcover $18.95 (192pp) / 978-1-64421-384-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Alex DiFrancesco’s gripping... Read More

Amazon’s recent efforts to discourage warehouse workers from joining a union in Bessemer, Alabama, has sparked renewed interest in this country’s many battles between powerful corporations and their blue-collar workforce. Alas, with... Read More

Dancing on Thin Ice / Travails of a Russian Dissenter / Arkady Polishchuk / DoppelHouse Press / Hardcover $29.95 (352pp) / 978-0-9987770-3-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Dancing on Thin Ice, Arkady Polishchuk’s memoir of... Read More

An Interview with Ana Hebra Flaster, Author of Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town / Every American immigrant story is both unique and similar to the tens of millions of emigrations that have... Read More

“There are thresholds we cross that leave us profoundly, irrevocably changed,” writes Michael Engelhard in American Wild, and whether those thresholds lead to beauty and grandeur, solitude and deep silence, or to encounters of the more... Read More

Love and Gravity / Always Human, #2 / Ari North / Yellow Jacket / Softcover $14.99 (288pp) / 978-1-4998-1278-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A young woman debates taking her dream job, though it would mean separating from her... Read More