"Beyond Colorblind" explores how religious communities can create spaces where ethnic identity is not just respected, but celebrated. Sarah Shin’s "Beyond Colorblind" is a needed exploration of how to talk about race in America, urging... Read More

Ward’s humorous book uses the American Southwest and its inhabitants to tell a beautiful story about a place, people, and time. A small town in the American Southwest and its diverse denizens are the focal point of the three... Read More

Kinky Friedman is something of a Texas legend. The satirist has, at various times, made his name as a singer-songwriter, a mystery author, an essayist, a columnist, an animal-rescue crusader, and a political candidate. Mary Lou... Read More

In Jessica Keener’s "Strangers in Budapest", it’s 1995, and the tech bubble is swelling. The Wall Street Journal is reporting unprecedented opportunity in Eastern Europe, and three Americans—Annie, Will, and their 4-month-old,... Read More

Tudor England’s legendary history is a rich locus in the popular imagination. Full of pageantry and larger-than-life personalities, the period is a favorite of the Anglophilic world. But what if that seemingly monolithic world was also... Read More

Exemplifying the best of the memoir genre, Brandeis tells a story that is both intimately specific and intensely relatable. In "The Art of Misdiagnosis", Gayle Brandeis strives to make meaning from the mysteries of death, illness, and... Read More

Kilee Brookbank’s is a story of hope and inspiration. Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined, by Kilee Brookbank and Lori Highlander, is a story of hope and health for a teen girl and her mother. At age sixteen, Kilee suffered a tragic... Read More

On one level, the book is a classic murder mystery; on a deeper level, it echoes humanity at its most primal. Nature may be red in tooth and claw, but in Wajdi Mouawad’s outstanding novel, "Anima", it’s humans who are claw-deep in... Read More