Suzanne Kamata’s collection of stories "The Beautiful One Has Come" explores the tension, and sometimes beauty, of straddling two very different cultures. In some cases this takes a very physical form, like being an American mother in... Read More

A teenage Nina Hamberg lies in her divorced parents’ old bedroom, trying to reason with a man who has crept into bed with her and threatened her with a knife. When offering to go to the kitchen and make him a cup of coffee only... Read More

How we categorize ourselves, in comparison with how others classify us, is the subject of these eight essays that give the reader much to contemplate. A black Briton who writes for the Guardian and the Nation, Younge is the author of two... Read More

Michael R. Rosmann proves to be a unique breed of American in Excellent Joy: Fishing Farming, Hunting, and Psychology. A clinical psychologist serving rural farm communities near the Rosmann family homestead in Western Iowa, the author... Read More

This illuminating collection of essays by field biologists, written from the late ‘90s through the mid-2000s, touches frequently on a disturbing albeit expected topic: the great apes’ declining numbers, due to disease transmitted by... Read More

For every great writer there need to be equally great readers. Jonathan Yardley may be just that, willing not only to read a work once, but also to re-read it seven or eight times. Yardley has been a columnist and book critic for the... Read More

Literary Capital: A Washington Reader is a collection of narratives by residents of and visitors to Washington, DC. In other words, a real grab bag. Reach in and pull out goodies from Dickens, Emerson, and Melville, or put them back and... Read More

For years—even decades—pundits and journalists have discussed the imminent death of newspapers, and for good reason. Technology usage, declining subscription numbers, and lackluster ad sales are causing major newspapers to hobble... Read More