Luke Healy weaves the mesmerizing but disparate tales of two expeditions to the Arctic a hundred years ago, and a modern-day college professor facing a scandal, in his stunning debut graphic novel, "How to Survive in the North".... Read More

Ethical Porn is bound to be controversial, but it includes great information given from a forceful perspective. “Dude, if you want your girlfriend to watch porn with you, you gotta be cool,” advises David J. Ley in his punchy new... Read More

Company leaders looking for ways to institutionalize innovation are sure to find this guide useful. Based on the work of a Harvard Business School professor, Jobs to be Done demonstrates a systematic, repeatable way for companies to... Read More

Covering the science and history of climate change, "Protecting the Planet" represents an ambitious attempt to cover the entire context of climate change, from origins to possible solutions. Unfortunately, it is only partially... Read More

Essential oils are the latest craze in the home-party market, but these natural health products pack a much more powerful benefit than kitchen gadgets and fashion items. Worwood was an essential-oil expert well before the current trend.... Read More

Morbidly engrossing, the novel probes the lengths women go to in order to be seen as beautiful. Kate Howard’s "The Ornatrix" is a dazzling exploration of the meaning and conveyance of feminine beauty. Flavia lives with the blemish of a... Read More

These stories deserve a cherished place in the canon of Jewish literature. Oedipus in Brooklyn gathers stories and personal essays from Blume Lempel, a Yiddish-speaking refugee who escaped the Holocaust in America but who never stopped... Read More

A small triumph, a growing awareness, a pleasant irony: these stories draw forth satisfaction. The nine stories in Sam Allingham’s Great American Songbook are a brilliant array of forms, character and relationship types, prose styles,... Read More