“My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.” Thus begins Tayari Jones’s latest novel, "Silver Sparrow", a story that blossoms and winds its way around this one,... Read More

In his latest book, journalist Richard Luov outlines the ways adults are also at risk for “nature-deficit disorder,” a condition he described at length in the national... Read More

When Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was first released in 1960, audiences were treated to many on-screen firsts: a flushing toilet, an image of unmarried lovers sharing a bed, a... Read More

In 1970, Yaupon Island is down to three inhabitants: Maggie, Whaley, and Woodrow, who make up half of Michael Parker’s novel, The Watery Part of the World. The other half... Read More

Precisely 150 years ago, on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as president of a hopelessly divided United States. Nine southern states had already seceded,... Read More

In January 1890, two men return to Port Bonita, Washington, after a trek through the never-explored Olympic Peninsula. “The valley was a bowl of glorious white, and beyond the... Read More

This is an account of forced stillness and its unexpected gifts. Suddenly stricken with a rare and mystifying neurological illness, bedridden and drained of energy, Elisabeth... Read More

"52 Loaves" is not really about the pursuit of truth, meaning, and a perfect crust, as the subtitle claims—but readers can indulge the author his bit of literary... Read More

Poets compare love with roses—but roses possess thorns. Writers often imply life always ends up all right—it doesn’t. "Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger", by Lee... Read More

“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars,” writer Garrison Keillor said about the imaginary town Lake Wobegon, a place seemingly protected from... Read More

Randi Davenport guides readers through the labyrinthine world of mental illness in her moving memoir, "The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes", masterfully weaving decades of memories into... Read More

“These are the gifts that last,” Shetterly writes. “Small, easy as breathingÂ…they sink beneath what we think they remember, what we think we know.” Her book is full... Read More