In the intelligent novel "The Flight of the Veil", a psychiatrist returns to childhood sites to reconcile his internal contradictions. In Bruce J. Berger’s reflective novel "The Flight of the Veil", a Holocaust survivor returns to his... Read More

Three teenagers, bent by circumstances beyond themselves, run headlong into the dark realities of the modern world in Fatima Bhutto’s stunning novel "The Runaways". Anita Rose is “everything and nothing at once,” according to her... Read More

Hermione Granger meets Emily Post in "You Are a Great and Powerful Wizard", Sage Liskey’s appealing grimoire-cum-self-help guide for the magically inclined. Forego expectations of elemental incantations and bubbling potions—at least,... Read More

Grief won’t suffer fools. What and how we grieve is the truest thing we know about ourselves. What Catherine Owen mines from her experience of losing a young spouse to drug addiction is extraordinary for its sweep. Her depths come to... Read More

In Rochelle Distelheim’s absorbing novel "Jerusalem as a Second Language", a family makes aliyah, considers assimilation, and tests its own bonds. The Zalinikovs—Manya, Yuri, and their daughter, Galina—survived the Soviet Union,... Read More

In "Original Politics", Glenn Aparicio Parry argues that Native American history and culture are imperative forces within America’s past and present. From Parry’s perspective, Native American politics represent a sacred America, or a... Read More

"Life in the Camel Lane" is a collection of personal travel anecdotes with insights into expat life. Doreen M. Cumberford’s "Life in the Camel Lane" distills decades worth of Arabian travel anecdotes and expat stories into a mosaic of... Read More

A veritable language factory, New York City may very well deserve its preferred moniker of being the greatest city in the world, at least when it comes to its influence on the way that English is spoken. The telling fact is that New... Read More