Most people have some connection to autism, even if it’s only a memory from their childhood of a boy or girl who spent a lot of time on the perimeter of the playground. Too many people have a closer connection—a friend, a child.... Read More

“The curious and uncanny part of it all is that there is no firing,” Major John Hay Beith wrote, describing the strange periods of inaction on the Western Front during the First World War. Ignoring their high commands’ exhortations... Read More

Nearly five years ago, Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, subjecting one of North America’s most beloved cities to tremendous water damage. The architecture of New Orleans is a unique reflection of the city’s rich and... Read More

Parents of young babies experience sleep deprivation—nights of sleep interrupted by babies awakening every few hours to eat, and days that seem to move only from one feeding to the next. While this is natural in the beginning, author... Read More

Queen Alcestis exists in literature and art as the quintessential good wife, a woman who loved her husband enough to take his place in the underworld. In Katharine Beutner’s debut novel, Alcestis’s tale is repeated, but this time our... Read More

Filled with strangely dysfunctional people, this unusual novel careens from Baltimore to Colorado and back again as two women struggle over possession of five-year-old Emily. She is an out-of-wedlock child whose mother, Bernice, gave her... Read More

This is edge-of-your-seat history, meticulously researched and laid out, but written with such high drama and cinematic clarity that even well-known events of America’s Revolutionary War are made to seem suspenseful-as if this time... Read More

Danny Granville is the most gifted young baseball player ever to come out of Chicago. His father, Henry, an obsessive fan of the game, can take the credit-and the blame-for igniting Danny’s passion. Henry took Danny to Wrigley Field to... Read More