In Robert Maynor’s engaging novel "The Big Game Is Every Night", a broken leg changes the life of a teenage boy in the rural American South, leaving him to navigate the everyday violence of his surroundings. A star running back on a... Read More

"Find More Birds" is a handy guide for birders, covering over one hundred steps toward increasing one’s chances of seeing birds in the wild. Birds leave behind evidence of their whereabouts, Wolf says—clues that can be followed to... Read More

A bruised hole in the sky prompts an extended, desperate search for answers in David Connor’s surrealistic novel "Oh God, the Sun Goes". “Something happened to metaphysical space,” says a stranger in a bar, “and now the sun is... Read More

Weaponized nostalgia endangers the world and forces a reckoning between old friends in Sin Blaché and Helen MacDonald’s novel "Prophet". An American-style diner, a bouquet of flowers, and a board game are among the objects that... Read More

An ensemble cast—their personalities aching, flawed, and vibrant—intersects across time in Rebekah Bergman’s "The Museum of Human History", a startling novel about memory, desire, and learning to age with grace. Off the coast of... Read More

"The Fifth Student" is an exciting thriller in which the fate of an innocent student is threatened by an intricate cheating scheme. In Geoffrey M. Cooper’s thriller "The Fifth Student", an academic scientist is swept up in a race to... Read More

"Forever Finite" is a thorough philosophical exercise that muses through concepts of finitude and infinity. Kip K. Sewell’s exhaustive philosophical text "Forever Finite" explores concepts of infinity with a critical eye. Tackling the... Read More

The essays compiled in "Beyond Primates" are entertaining as they examine the topic of evolution, making use of extraordinary real-world examples. The science essays gathered in Rebecca Coffey’s "Beyond Primates" summarize new... Read More