Historian Gordon H. Shufelt’s true crime book recounts the 1875 murder of a Black man by a white policeman. While racial police brutality is still not uncommon, the grim distinction surrounding Daniel Brown’s death is that, in late... Read More

“Sex is messy. Un-sex is just as infinitely messy,” Myriam Steinberg writes in "Catalogue Baby", her graphic memoir about five grueling years of fertility treatment. By the time she became a parent, she’d had 125 blood draws, 151... Read More

Compiling recipes from refugee chefs of scattered origins, "The Kitchen without Borders" is a bridge-building cookbook. The catering company Eat Offbeat began in 2015, with the award of a seed grant from Columbia University to sister and... Read More

Kateřina Tučková’s "Gerta" is a startling, significant historical novel set during and after the violent postwar expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. At the end of WWII, Gerta—the daughter of a disrespected Czech mother whom... Read More

"Almost Innocent" is an attorney’s passionate memoir about how difficult it is for people to find real justice in America. Shanti Brien’s heartrending memoir "Almost Innocent" gives an eye-opening insider’s account of the American... Read More

Ann Armbrecht’s "The Business of Botanicals" is an insightful, impassioned study of the herbal supplements industry and the challenges of producing its goods in a socially responsible way. The botanical supplement industry exceeded $9... Read More

In the late nineteenth century, the animal story, a new genre of nature writing, was both popular and controversial. These weren’t cutesy tales of talking deer spinning allegories or anthropomorphized, besuited grizzly bears ready to... Read More

Andie Solar’s "Pretty Punch Needle" equips its audience to perform its fun and easy craft by introducing beginning techniques––and thirteen projects that don’t look like the work of beginners. Solar describes punch needle work in... Read More