Laura B. McGrath’s "Middlemen" is a thorough, diverting investigation of the role literary agents play in the creation of book markets and reader tastes. “No figure has been more significant, and yet more invisible, in American... Read More

An inspiring historical treatise, Sarah Lonsdale’s "Wildly Different" explores the unconventional lives of five women who defied limiting cultural norms to impact environmental causes. Mina Hubbard went on expedition in northern... Read More

An entrepreneur navigates Taiwan’s government, gangs, and corporate culture in Ed Lin’s mystery novel The Dead Can’t Make a Living. Entrepreneurial, sarcastic, and unlucky Jing-nan runs his late parents’ food stall in Taipei’s... Read More

The detailed family memoir "Inheritance" goes to great lengths to tell remarkable World War II stories of resilience and courage. Charlie Scheidt’s immersive memoir "Inheritance" concerns a family’s tumultuous World War II past.... Read More

The convoluted web of food system sustainability, land management, and ecological misfires populates the pages of Nicole Negowetti’s "Feeding the Future". The apparatus of food production is herein magnified through dense,... Read More

A man is tasked with finding a missing painting in Naomi Hirahara’s historical novel "Crown City". While adrift in grief, Ryui is offered a job in California by his father’s former client. After a harrowing voyage from Japan, he... Read More

Hearkening back to classics in style, "Reunions" is a weighty literary novel about revealing encounters with old friends. In David Adams Cleveland’s verbose literary novel "Reunions", former classmates see a familiar face at their... Read More

"Lessons in Drag" started as a performance by LaWhore Vagistan, the drag persona of academic Kareem Khubchandani. In it, she stages Khubchandani’s ethnographic research into accents, aunties, appropriation, and other topics connected... Read More