A fateful lesbian relationship grounds Mariam, It’s Arwa, Areej Gamal’s revealing historical novel about sustenance amid grief. Sent to live with her grandmother in Egypt, Mariam aches to be known. Then, in a metro station amid... Read More

Photographer Virginia Mcgee Richards documentary text "The Inner Passage" shows how history altered a region and its people over centuries. The Inner Passage, introduced here as a series of canals and rivers along the coastline of South... Read More

A first-time grandmother reckons with the ways she retreated from herself in Hollay Ghadery’s melancholy but hopeful novel The Unraveling of Ou. Minoo’s strict, conservative mother ingrained in her the belief that she was shameful,... Read More

Don’t Look Down! is a lively memoir–cum–entrepreneur’s guide that illustrates the benefits of pursuing every opportunity with gusto. Entrepreneur Bob Campana’s lively memoir–cum–leadership guide Don’t Look Down! draws on... Read More

The moving memoir "Things Left Unsaid" embodies a son’s respect for his complicated father. Glenn E. Wichinsky’s exploratory memoir "Things Left Unsaid" is about a late-in-life discovery that compelled him to rewrite his entire... Read More

In Harry Mathews’s literary novel "The Conversions", stories nest, esoterica abound, sentences fail, and gibberish is spoken. A beguiling unnamed narrator with distinguished connections and intellectual leanings attends a gathering... Read More

In Luigi Pirandello’s philosophical novel "One, None, and a Hundred Grand", a personal identity crisis leads to profound explorations of the self and ego. After Vitangelo’s wife, Dida, reveals to him that his nose tilts to the right,... Read More

"The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook" is Becky L. Diamond’s entertaining guide to late nineteenth-century holiday sweets, decorations, and customs. Studded like a literary plum pudding with recipes, illustrations, and Christmas lore, it... Read More