A fascinating, multifaceted collection of armchair treks, Linda Cracknell’s travel memoir "Doubling Back" is about revisiting significant places on foot. Cracknell’s walks, undertaken sometimes solo and at other times with... Read More

Julian Borger’s illuminating, elegiac memoir "I Seek a Kind Person" traces his search for his Viennese father’s wartime history. In 1983, Borger’s father, Robert, committed suicide. Borger, a journalist, later discovered an... Read More

A couple experiences the futility and horror of trying to outrun their problems in Dennis Mahoney’s horror novel "Our Winter Monster". Holly and Brian rumble toward a ski resort to salvage their scattered partnership. A blizzard is on... Read More

Neil Taylor’s thriller "Anticipation" unravels a high-tech mystery in an unsettling near-future scenario. Riya is a math and machine-learning savant who lost her technology genius father in a plane accident. When she learns that his... Read More

Steve Stern’s "A Fool’s Kabbalah" is a crushing, startling novel about intellectual and spiritual defiance in the face of unbearable cruelties. On a scholarly scavenging expedition through Europe, famed kabbalist Gershom Scholem... Read More

In David Wright Faladé’s immersive novel "The New Internationals", cross-cultural friendships and romances challenge racial barriers in post–World War II Paris. During the Nazi occupation, Cecile’s parents enrolled her in a... Read More

Misunderstood, atypical coworkers navigate their complicated relationships in the grim, funny novel Golda’s Hutch. In Robert Steven Goldstein’s satirical novel Golda’s Hutch, a corporate leader’s private affairs lead to career... Read More

"Into the Thaw" is Jon Waterman’s gripping firsthand account of the impact of development and climate change on North America’s Arctic landscape. In his powerful memoir, Waterman documents “extraordinary changes” in the Arctic... Read More