Young lovers run up against the limits of their abilities to control their own destinies in Johannes Anyuru’s melancholy novel "Ixelles". Ruth should know a lie when she hears one: she lies for a living, helping brands and politicians... Read More

Scholar Jordan D. Rosenblum’s fascinating text "Forbidden" is a history of how the pig became the litmus test for Jewish identity. In accordance with biblical dietary laws, the pig is only one non-kosher animal out of many. Still, it... Read More

The first tome in an epic series set to cover the span of human history, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s riveting novel "Paradises Lost" introduces an immortal who’s grown weary of human foibles, but who still recognizes the wondrous... Read More

A comprehensive guide for recovery allies, You Don’t Have to Quit is flush with scientific, therapeutic, and medical information alongside its personal stories of helping a partner manage his alcohol use disorder. Maureen Palmer’s... Read More

A wounded woman is assisted in the search for the truth about her late father in the empathetic novel "Threads of Us". Christie Havey Smith weaves together four entwined perspectives in "Threads of Us", a novel about grieving a parent... Read More

Two women are pulled together by their complicated relationships to motherhood in the tense but humane thriller "Not Yours to Keep". Fraught with heartache, Zelly Ruskin’s thriller "Not Yours to Keep" unfolds the pain of infertility.... Read More