Accessibility is the name of the game with A Year with the Sages. For those seeking a more academic take on the weekly Torah portion but who don’t have higher level divinity degrees, this companion from Rabbi Reuven Hammer is an... Read More

The Girl With the Whispering Shadow is a strong, sensitive fantasy novel about coming of age and coming into your own natural-born powers. Filled with fanciful flourishes, "The Girl with the Whispering Shadow" is the second volume of the... Read More

"The Last 8" is diverse and immersive science fiction. Clover Martinez may be a teenager, but she’s built like a soldier. Trained to fly by her air force grandfather, she’s the perfect candidate for surviving the apocalypse: clever,... Read More

Environmental journalist Andrew Reeves labels "Overrun" “an environmental travelogue.” In it, he follows the Asian carp along its invasive path through North America. In some respects, the book reads like a modern-day horror tale, in... Read More

In her introduction to "Discovering Second Temple Literature", Malka Z. Simkovich describes the book’s subject matter as a considerable blind spot in the study of Jewish history. Beginning with the Tanakh’s conclusion and ending... Read More

"What the Health" lobs a bombshell into the typical American diet. Documentary filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn set out to better understand the dangers of the foods we eat, propelled by Andersen’s own fear that he’d face the... Read More

R. L. Toalson’s heart-wrenching "The Colors of the Rain" traces a boy’s journey through incredible loss amid tense racial issues. In 1972, in Houston, Texas, Paulie Sanders’s father is killed after fleeing the scene of a bar fight.... Read More

If so great a physicist as Richard Feynman once claimed that “nobody understands quantum mechanics,” what hope do we laypeople have? Luckily, Philip Ball, a freelance writer (formerly of Nature magazine) who has published widely on... Read More