One of Europe’s most visited centers is illuminated in Cynthia Paces’s erudite history book "Prague". Prague, Franz Kafka’s birthplace, has been called “the mistress of all Bohemia.” Here, this riverside site of political... Read More

"Community Capital" is a knowledgeable text that focuses on institutional financial challenges within marginalized communities. Clifford N. Rosenthal and Michael McCray’s "Community Capital" is a microhistory of race relations viewed... Read More

Rebecca Roque’s "Till Human Voices Wake Us" is an engrossing thriller about a girl looking for her friend’s murderer. When Silencia’s friend Alice drowned, everyone believed it was suicide. There was a note, and Alice was reeling... Read More

"City of the Dreadful Night" delivers a Gothic explanation to the unsolved mystery of Jack the Ripper. A killer stalks London’s slums in Euan MacPherson’s novel "City of the Dreadful Night", a horror mashup with roots in real-life... Read More

Reissued in light of the contemporary relevance of its topics, Journalist I. F. Stone’s political exposé of the Korean War calls years’ worth of dubious claims, made by the highest authorities, into question. Often called the... Read More

In Kate Marchant’s novel "Whistleblower", a young journalist chases a story about a revered football coach’s misconduct. Laurel is a junior at Garland, a southern California college, who believes herself to be forgettable. The Daily,... Read More