Ru Marshall’s investigative literary biography "American Trickster" illuminates author Carlos Castaneda’s life and the controversy over the truthfulness of his books. Castaneda published a series of popular books from the late 1960s... Read More

William Stell’s "Born Again Queer" is a focused history of gay and lesbian evangelism in the US, profiling progressive evangelical leaders and setting their work in context with the help of historical religious publications. After a... Read More

A harrowing memoir about artistic integrity under state repression, "The Village on the Edge of the World" collects Nobel Prize-winning novelist Herta Müller’s reflections on growing into her vocation during the socialist dictatorship... Read More

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