Accessibility is the name of the game with A Year with the Sages. For those seeking a more academic take on the weekly Torah portion but who don’t have higher level divinity degrees, this companion from Rabbi Reuven Hammer is an... Read More
"Kingdom" is an entertaining science fiction story set in creepy locales. Anderson O’Donnell’s "Kingdom" is an exhilarating science fiction thriller with a noir sensibility about the morality of manipulating human genes. In an... Read More
Give it up for Gavin Evans’s thorough and timely teardown of racial myths in Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race. Informed by a background in law and political studies, as well as involvement in anti-apartheid movements... Read More
"Agony to Agony" is both a history and a memoir. It gives an insider’s view of Burma during turbulent political times. Patrick Yay’s memoir "Agony to Agony" is about life in postcolonial Burma (now Myanmar) and recounts Yay’s time... Read More
Hearts of our People catalogs the first major exhibition focused on Native American women’s art. Curated by Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves, and incorporating essays by many Native artists and scholars, this is a landmark... Read More
Themes of perseverance and positivity infuse this ranging memoir. Themes of external malevolence—be it from voodoo curses or hateful individuals—suffuse Yvon Milien’s memoir "The Rhythm of My Life", all matched by his determination... Read More
Charles Davis’s eccentric, droll historical novel "The Measure of the World" has the establishment of the metric system at its core, and it proves perilous to seek standardization when most regard surveying with suspicion.... Read More
"The Time Travel Team" is an intricate middle grade fantasy that lauds inventiveness and science. Jordyn Hadden’s action-driven middle grade fantasy "The Time Travel Team" imparts lessons on the history of invention. Tyme Newton is one... Read More