In Vigdis Hjorth’s powerful novel "If Only", a playwright develops an obsession with an older professor that spirals into an all-consuming love affair. At thirty years old,... Read More

In the mid-nineteenth century, the expanding United States worked to colonize the territory that’s now Arizona. To do so, it turned to the Middle East for expertise,... Read More

Fred Scharmen’s "Space Forces" charts the history of ideas about space travel and living in outer space. What do interplanetary aspirations say about societies, and what... Read More

For many, the Korean peninsula is shrouded in mystery. In his memoir "The Prisoner", esteemed writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong illuminates the turbulence of... Read More

"The World in a Selfie" is a creative, philosophical study of travel. It considers hundreds of years of why and how people go places, and what it all says about our desires, our... Read More

Three teenagers, bent by circumstances beyond themselves, run headlong into the dark realities of the modern world in Fatima Bhutto’s stunning novel "The Runaways". Anita Rose... Read More

In "Feminist City", Leslie Kern shows how cities keep women “in their place” through hidden, understated means while favoring men’s needs and experiences. Wide-ranging... Read More

Through the narrator’s oral history, this novel examines the forces that cause a young sharecropper to take his own life. "Drought", a novel by Ronald Fraser, revolves around... Read More