Jamie Goode’s full-bodied "The Goode Guide to Wine" tastes its way through the industry for consumers and the trade. Original, sensory-fused titles, including “Mouthfeel Matters,” frame the book’s short and easy-reading chapters.... Read More

Rumors and jealousy have irreparable consequences in Suzzy Roche’s novel, "The Town Crazy". People love to gossip in Hanzloo, Pennsylvania: about Lil, who hasn’t been out of the house all summer; about Luke, who just moved from New... Read More

Teresa Fazio’s shocking memoir "Fidelis" recalls her deployment to Iraq and her stateside return. Fazio, a lieutenant in the US Marines, shares a vivid account of her deployment when she was a naïve twenty-three-year-old. Through her... Read More

Dakota McFadzean’s story collection To Know You’re Alive is deliberate, creepy, and wonderful. These stories might be called haunting or disturbing, but that loose description doesn’t do justice to their subtle and graceful... Read More

John McNally’s excellent short story collection "The Fear of Everything" includes nine tales of subtle terror. Beginning with “The Magician,” this book marks its territory: it specializes in a kind of removed, intellectual suburban... Read More

Politics, family frictions, and divided loyalties collide in Ehsaneh Sadr’s engrossing novel, which is set during the aftermath of Iran’s controversial 2009 presidential election and subsequent “Green Wave” protests. The families... Read More

A lonely eleven-year-old discovers a secret underworld filled with gnomes and trolls in Jeff Dinardo’s quirky fantasy tale, "The One Great Gnome". The day after she and her parents move from New York City to rural Connecticut, Sarah... Read More

Over a dozen historians contributed to James Raven’s "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book", an essay collection about the long history of reading, publishing, and information dissemination. From the earliest writings on clay... Read More