"Inside Impeachment" is a valuable primary resource regarding the trials of Bill Clinton. A blow-by-blow diary of the second impeachment in US history, Clifford B. Stearns’s book "Inside Impeachment" is an insider’s view of American... Read More

In the surprising dystopian novel "Let Them Whimper", human imperfection might make the species worth saving after all. In K. Enterante’s shocking science fiction novel "Let Them Whimper", a handful of unlikely heroes fight to stop a... Read More

In Heather B. Moore’s illuminating novel "Under the Java Moon", a Dutch family is sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Inspired by a woman who lived in Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) when she and the women in her family were... Read More

In Sean Michaels’s prescient and fascinating novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", a famous poet is asked to co-write a poem with an AI. At seventy-five years old, Marian—who wears capes, a tricorn hat, and bikinis—is... Read More

The unnamed narrator of Sheena Patel’s edgy novel I’m a Fan is a woman of color and a stalker. Although she lives with her doting boyfriend, the writer is having an affair with a rich, prominent, emotionally unavailable man who is... Read More

A country’s first Black chief inspector investigates the disappearance of a powerful white man in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s spellbinding mystery novel "The Quality of Mercy". Spokes, once a porter for the British Army, felt convicted... Read More

Robert Jay Lifton’s thought-provoking book "Surviving Our Catastrophes" says that survivors can teach the world much about resilience. Two assumptions function as the starting point in the study represented by this book: one, that a... Read More

If there were such a thing as a list of do’s and don’ts for a hired assassin, “Don’t get involved with the target” would probably be at the top of the “don’ts” column. Linda L. Richards’s propulsive novel "Dead West"... Read More