In its honesty, this account of a quest for adventure and self-realization will attract those on similar paths. Mitchell Phillips McCrady’s musing memoir, From Pittsburgh to Cadiz, captures vibrant scenes thanks to fine writing.... Read More

Gyan Prakash’s "Emergency Chronicles" fills the gaps and dispels the myths concerning a two-year period in the mid-1970s when Indira Gandhi declared emergency powers and unleashed state terror on India. During India’s... Read More

Michael Smerconish’s collection is compelling and entertaining—not as a filtering of daily news through a predictable ideological lens, but as a group of insightful entries into conversations about current events and issues. Although... Read More

Chaim Linder’s remarkable memoir reaches into widely interesting territory. "Angels Always Come on Time" is a memoir that reaches into the realm of epics and odysseys as well as being a religious and cultural history. In its present... Read More

Americans who were of age in 1969–70 will remember the Chicago 7 trial of high-profile antiwar dissidents. Less familiar are the Seattle 7. In Seattle, a rally in support of the Chicago 7 defendants by the activist group SLF (the... Read More

The Collected Letters adds a new portal to the identity of the man most responsible for introducing Zen Buddhism to the West. Edited by his daughters, Joan and Anne Watts, these assembled letters of Alan Watts—the British-born writer,... Read More

Rocky Boyer’s War is Allen Boyer’s tribute to his father’s service, but the book also stands tall with other scholarly work on the Pacific war. To tell the story of the successful Allied air blitz against the Japanese in the... Read More

"The Flight of the Mango Flowers" adds perspective to the events following the Cuban revolution. In his memoir, Antonio Gordon recreates the era of the “Mango Flowers,” during which more than 14,000 Cuban children were sent by their... Read More