Alex Green’s fascinating book reconstructs the life and legacy of Walter E. Fernald, a polarizing architect in the US’s treatment of the mentally disabled. A physician from... Read More

In Roger Celestin’s haunting novel "The Delicate Beast", a man’s early experiences in the Tropical Republic are contrasted with his life in exile in the United States and... Read More

Set in 1897, Norman Lock’s riveting historical novel "The Caricaturist" focuses on Oliver, a Philadelphia native and a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.... Read More

Challenging its audience to find themselves within its heroines’ tales, Leah Hager Cohen’s magnificent turn-and-read novel To & Fro is a tour de force peek into the... Read More

Melissa Pritchard follows the troubled life of the celebrated yet complex Florence Nightingale in her enthralling novel "Flight of the Wild Swan". Florence Nightingale would... Read More

A crisis exposes faultlines in a marriage in Cormac James’s whipsmart, lyrical novel "Trondheim". In the winter, Trondheim ought to be magical, but to Lil and Alba, who are in... Read More

Jerome Charyn’s rollicking novel Ravage & Son tours the seedy underbelly of turn-of-the-century New York City. Between 1883 and 1913, the city’s Jewish quarter witnesses... Read More

In Norman Lock’s historical novel "The Ice Harp", Ralph Waldo Emerson struggles with encroaching dementia and the incontrovertible realities of aging. In 1879, Emerson is... Read More

Reflective and forthright, Adina Talve-Goodman’s posthumously published essay collection "Your Hearts, Your Scars" discusses chronic illness, the corporeal body, and the... Read More

A taxi driver succumbs to her bizarre, terrifying delusions in Juan José Millás’s novel "Let No One Sleep". From the moment that she heard her downstairs neighbor playing... Read More

The horror and devastation of the Civil War are witnessed by two icons of American literature in Norman Lock’s novel "Voices in the Dead House". After the 1862 defeat of the... Read More

Frederic Tuten dares to question the nature of art and life in the short stories of "The Bar at Twilight", several of which were written to accompany gallery exhibitions. In... Read More