The historical biographies collected in Elizabeth Cobbs’s "Fearless Women" cover those who advanced women’s rights at each stage in American history. Arguing for broader definitions of feminism and patriotism that encompass their... Read More

Filled with dramatic, often violent, seventeenth-century court and clergy intrigues, Bronwen McShea’s "La Duchesse" is meticulous—the “first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot.” Vignerot would have been a minor rural... Read More

"Malkah Job" is a slow-burning thriller in which an Israeli spy has erotic encounters with men from her past. In Vasilissa Wladowsky’s erotic novel "Malkah Job", a hardened spy embarks on a mission to save her husband from the bosses... Read More

"The Silent Epidemic" is a thought-provoking introduction to ND-PAE. Susan D. Rich’s "The Silent Epidemic" concerns a medical condition with an alarming reach. The book draws on Rich’s background as a psychiatrist to explain... Read More

Defne Suman’s epic historical novel "The Silence of Scheherazade" chronicles the fall of the Ottoman Empire as experienced by four Turkish families. Dense with rich descriptions and interwoven narrative threads, much like a tapestry... Read More

In Jennifer Gruenke’s fantasy novel, people “do terrible things to stay alive,” hoping they can be forgiven. Eighteen-year-old Ren is a gutter rat, gambler, and pit fighter who survived immolation nine years ago. She now wields her... Read More

Over a dozen historians contributed to James Raven’s "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book", an essay collection about the long history of reading, publishing, and information dissemination. From the earliest writings on clay... Read More

Stalin’s quip that “one death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic” gets to the essence of how we become numbed by the frequency of mass shootings. We simply can’t compute the magnitude of such horror, but to read about the... Read More