The threat of climate change looms over the short stories of Ashley Shelby’s "Honeymoons in Temporary Locations", resulting in a zesty mix of humor, speculative science... Read More

Downtrodden heroes are the focus of "Prairie Edge", an intimate, unsparing novel about the lives of Indigenous people in Canada. Ezzy is an aimless young man of Métis descent... Read More

A chance encounter alters the course of a man’s life in Gustave Flaubert’s freshly translated novel "Sentimental Education". Weak-willed, self-centered Frédéric has just... Read More

Linda LeGarde Grover’s graceful novel "A Song over Miskwaa Rapids", set on Ojibwe land in Minnesota, pairs a sordid mystery with supernatural influences. Mozhay Point, a... Read More

In Rosemary Hennessy’s immersive book, seven singular authors are analyzed in terms of their unconventional lives and literary works. Drawing social crisis parallels between... Read More

Art professor A. Laurie Palmer’s musing interdisciplinary work "The Lichen Museum" draws life lessons from often-overlooked organisms. Lichens, Palmer notes, have served as... Read More

Sheri Brenden’s "Break Point" covers the politics and legal moves involved in the creation of women’s athletics programs. Peggy Brenden and Toni St. Pierre were raised in an... Read More

In the snowy Minnesota woods, a family of three straps on snowshoes and skitters across the frozen landscape, seeking out a place to set up camp. They hunker down by a frozen... Read More

In 1971, Anthony Scaduto’s Bob Dylan became the first investigative biography of the greatest modern songwriter, examining his formative years in the New York folk scene and... Read More

“Health is a capacious category, inextricable from the entire social world,” says Anne Pollock in "Sickening", about how societies’ intricacies and ills are reflected back... Read More

Liv Arnesen’s inspiring memoir "Skiing into the Bright Open" is about her expedition as the first woman to ski solo to the South Pole. With clarity and an understated tone,... Read More

Antoine Volodine’s superb post-exotic novel "Solo Viola" imagines a society that’s one step removed from reality. With a narrative spiced up by absurdity and a dead serious... Read More