In 1940 the Soviet army executed 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians, a command issued from the highest authority, the eponymous Katyn Order of Jacobson’s second historical thriller. As the German army withdraws from Poland in... Read More

“Seventy-five years after its inception, Fallingwater affirms architecture’s prospect to engage the lyrical and visceral dimensions of human experience that arise from a direct engagement with nature.” So writes John M. Reynolds in... Read More

“My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.” Thus begins Tayari Jones’s latest novel, "Silver Sparrow", a story that blossoms and winds its way around this one, life-making fact. Set in 1980’s Atlanta, the book peels open... Read More

Written in 1940 and now published for the first time with illustrations in a folk-art style, Stein’s fanciful journey through the alphabet features a short story in verse about each letter. The author’s postmodern approach to... Read More

When Aneel’s grandparents come from India to live with his family, he delights in their customs and stories about distant lands. He dreams of the villagers and animals introduced to him and is impressed with how his Dadi-ma chants... Read More

Remember the Icarochenis? How about the Gaslodon? Don’t worry; neither does anyone else. In Flip-O-Storic, the heads, bodies, and tails of ten actual prehistoric beasts—the popular woolly mammoth and saber-tooth tiger among... Read More

A cement mixer, a bulldozer, and a crane: not your average bedtime protagonists. This sweet rhyming narrative that celebrates the day’s end in an unconventional yet everyday place will convince listeners that there’s a kind of... Read More

It’s a question that’s given rise to some of the greatest works of narrative art, as well as some of the crassest manifestations of popular culture, including most of today’s so-called “Reality TV” shows: “What are you... Read More