A recovering alcoholic considers what to do about his family’s secrets in Morgan Talty’s affecting novel "Fire Exit". Charles was raised on the Penobscot Island Indian Reservation by his Native American stepfather, but that doesn’t... Read More

A lonely hairdresser finds comfort and inspiration in an unlikely place in Stéphane Carlier’s effervescent English-language debut, "Clara Reads Proust". The people working at the Cindy Coiffure hair salon are a dissatisfied bunch.... Read More

Sidney Morrison’s biographical novel "Frederick Douglass" follows the famed abolitionist from slavery to international stardom. Frederick Douglass dreams of escaping enslavement for years. But after completing the long and dangerous... Read More

Calling its ideal audience of one to task for deviating from his earlier Christian principles, "The Gospel According to Alex Jones" is a caustic and esoteric text. Jay L. Hall makes a case against Alex Jones in his political science book... Read More

"The Preventable Epidemic" is a timely survey of widespread opioid use disorder in the US with persuasive recommendations for improving treatment options. In his health book "The Preventable Epidemic", Arun Gupta explains how the US’s... Read More

Grace Loh Prasad’s memoir The Translator’s Daughter is about her life as an assimilated immigrant. Prasad left Taiwan when she was still a toddler. Even after her parents returned to Taiwan years later, she elected to remain in the... Read More

Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she... Read More

In Pascale Robert-Diard’s novel "The Little Liar", a weary small-town lawyer takes a professionally and emotionally challenging case. When Alice agrees to represent Lisa, a woman who was raped as a minor, the case seems cut-and-dried.... Read More