In the wild science fiction adventure "The Flight Boys", four teenagers take off on a blundering trip to Pluto. Angela Brooks’s funny young adult novel "The Flight Boys" puts an entertaining spin on an interstellar space adventures,... Read More

Dabbing and elk hunters make bloody companions in "The Melancholy Howl", the fifth Allison Coil mystery from Mark Stevens. Legalized retail and recreational marijuana has come to Colorado, but instead of creating a mellow atmosphere, the... Read More

J. J. Hensley’s enthralling detective novel "Record Scratch" blends music, violence, and mental health. While working as an undercover cop, Trevor Galloway was tortured with heroin; now, he can not only invoke visions of crime scenes,... Read More

Lena Mahmoud constructs a subversive story about love and marriage in her novel "Amreekiya", a feminist Palestinian project that follows its headstrong lead, Isra, through struggle and loss. This is a tense examination of what a marriage... Read More

"Ghosts in the Schoolyard" is a chilling must-read investigation of racism in Chicago’s education system. One might think the days of black students fighting for their right to attend quality schools are long gone, but "Ghosts in the... Read More

If so great a physicist as Richard Feynman once claimed that “nobody understands quantum mechanics,” what hope do we laypeople have? Luckily, Philip Ball, a freelance writer (formerly of Nature magazine) who has published widely on... Read More