Along with the papacy’s radical new image come stirrings in the wider Catholic world—and, certainly, within independent Catholic presses. Some of the most interesting movement can be noted from a press whose books we’ve featured... Read More

Algonquin Books was founded in 1983 in part to publish work by undiscovered young writers, and the company’s new editorial director, Betsy Gleick, is committed to redoubling the company’s pursuit of talented new voices. The former... Read More

A funny thing happened on the way to the revolution. Radical became mainstream. To many millennials, the Cold War seems as ancient as the Peloponnesian War, so mention of the word “socialism” just does not ignite the same fits of... Read More

June, as much as it is celebrated for bringing warm weather, is wedding month. With that designation come celebrations, tears, and drama—and, for young ladies lucky enough to be asked, the duties of flower girls. Lynelle Woolley’s... Read More

Summer is for blockbusters–and why not transfer all of that excitement to a book? Katie Kennedy’s new young adult novel, Learning to Swear in America, takes the thrilling, possibly world-ending topics of disaster films and translates... Read More

As an aging rockstar on perpetual tour, who is cocooned by renown that verges on mythos, wends his way through Justin Tussing’s new novel, Vexation Lullaby, he brings to the fore questions of how much we can ever really know about... Read More

It has been said that Michigan was first in the recession, and last out. So, by 2006, with the decline of the auto industry already under way, it took a bit of chutzpah for a university press based in one of the most-maligned, grittiest... Read More

Take a look at the author page at three-year-old Rosarium Publishing and you don’t even have to mention the word “diversity.” The writers’ faces, which come in many hues, speak for themselves. To Bill Campbell, Rosarium’s... Read More