"Losing the Atmosphere" is a heartbreaking account of life with a rare psychological disorder, and of the events that broke a budding mind to pieces. Vivian Conan’s compelling memoir "Losing the Atmosphere" concerns dissociative... Read More

Ah, the prose poem, thought by the unsuspecting to be less challenging than poetry’s other forms. But no: prose requires rare insight, imagination, and writing at its highest level. In the twentieth century, no one outperformed... Read More

Larger-than-life writer at large Ernest Hemingway always made it his practice to seek out the world’s centers of attention, whether they were war zones, Parisian literary salons, prerevolutionary Cuba, or idyllic Key West and Idaho. In... Read More

The erudite, illustrated essays of "Dissimilar Similitudes" concern art, history, religion, and culture in late medieval Europe—in particular, how devotional objects and images were viewed by worshippers. Some challenge traditional... Read More

Told as a series of interconnected stories, Linda Kass’s captivating, based-in-truth novel "A Ritchie Boy" is about assimilation, hope, and perseverance. When he was fifteen, Eli and his parents escaped war-torn Austria, which had... Read More

In Chelsea Britain’s contemporary novel "Cuttle", a quirky, scholarly heroine navigates the rocky shoals of academia and the risky shores of adult relationships. After eight years of grad school, analytical, problem-solving Nora is an... Read More

R. B. Lemberg spins a world of singing gods, desert nomads, and magic humming in the wind in "The Four Profound Weaves", the first novella set in their Birdverse universe. Uiziya, a transgender woman in her sixties, is an aspiring master... Read More

The surprising trajectory of the shared economy is laid bare in Juliet B. Schor’s After the Gig. Out of the 2008 financial collapse and into a world of unfulfilling work on the dreaded nine-to-five schedule stepped a new idea, full of... Read More