In Andrée Poulin’s haunting, empathetic novel-in-verse "Planting Sunshine", a boy tries to understand war from the safety of his home. Theo’s story opens on an ordinary afternoon, when he’s playing basketball with his father. But... Read More

Camara Lundestad Joof’s piercing memoir I Talk about It All the Time concerns the particularities of systemic racism in Scandinavia. Joof, who is a queer Black Norwegian Gambian woman, writes in Nynorsk—“the much less used of two... Read More

The entries of the encyclopedic "Letters from Mr. J B Fact Finder" are educational tidbits on a myriad of subjects. Varied and light, the topical essays of Joe W. Boyd’s "Letters from Mr. J B Fact Finder" gather interesting historical... Read More

"WWII + VI" is a pleasing memoir that combines world events with personalized accounts of surviving the war. Johan Zwaan’s memoir "WWII + VI" focuses on his early childhood experiences of the war and its aftermath in the Netherlands.... Read More

Drawing connections between the nation’s founders and contemporary religious and cultural arguments, "Apostasy Can Lead a Nation to Self-Destruct" makes a passionate case for national repentance. Both a political and a religious book,... Read More