Telmo Pievani’s provocative book "Serendipity" integrates literature, philosophy, and science to explore an idea crucial to scientific discovery. Pievani notes that in the Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip,”... Read More

Evangelical pastor Caleb E. Campbell’s "Disarming Leviathan" is an earnest text that works to understand the phenomenon of rising Christian nationalism in the United States. Following the upheavals of 2020 and 2021, including the... Read More

An indefinable connection grows between a reluctant bodyguard and a yakuza’s daughter in Akira Otani’s novel "The Night of Baba Yaga". Shindo’s life is far from perfect, but when she is pressed into service as a chauffeur and... Read More

A man reconciles his father’s American culture with his mother’s Yanomami roots in the graphic memoir "Good." David Good has a dual lineage: his parents are an American-born anthropologist and a member of the Yanomami people of the... Read More

Recounting the stages of a couple’s cross-country move, "Redneck Riviera" is an amiable, humor-filled novel. In James Hooker’s reflective novel "Redneck Riviera", a couple flees Silicon Valley for North Carolina’s coast. In 2002,... Read More

About faith, family, and an informal investigation into carcinogenic toxins, Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir "Loose of Earth" is wrenching. Blackburn grew up in Texas surrounded by cotton fields. Her family was religious; their... Read More

A teenager explores the wide world of nature as it’s seen in her neighborhood in the graphic novel "Wildful", a magical showcase of non-verbal storytelling. Poppy’s grandmother died; her mother languishes on the couch. Poppy escapes,... Read More

The unnamed narrator of Sheena Patel’s edgy novel I’m a Fan is a woman of color and a stalker. Although she lives with her doting boyfriend, the writer is having an affair with a rich, prominent, emotionally unavailable man who is... Read More