Bird-watching, meditations on wildlife, and a move to Northern Greece animate Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir "Lifelines", about the varied meanings of shelter and survival on a changing planet. Weary of commuting to hectic London,... Read More

South African scholar Julia Martin’s mesmerizing and evocative memoir covers sponge diving from an anthropological perspective. While on sabbatical, Martin traveled to the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea to study Porifera, whose... Read More

Irena Smith’s intricate memoir-in-vignettes traces her Soviet Jewish family’s history during a memorable California road trip. During an atypically wet California January, Smith, her seventy-seven-year-old mother, and her young adult... Read More

Poetic and whimsical, Georgianna Lane’s soothing photography collection inspires contemplation through her favorite floral varieties. Favoring “pastel prettiness,” fragrance, and roses most of all, Lane draws from her extensive... Read More

A woman’s homecoming stirs dark suspicions in Melanie McCabe’s brooding historical thriller Road Longer Than Memory. In 1976, Sara, a high school senior, witnesses a fellow student, Nina’s, heated argument. Fear prevents her from... Read More

In Laura Zigman’s macabre novel "The Author Weekend", an author with extreme insecurities faces a derailed promotional event and encounters the perils of fandom. Faye is a prickly New Englander, just like the beloved sleuth in her... Read More

Nguyễn Bình Phương’s earthy and fabulistic novel "The Young Die Old" is a multigenerational story set in Phan, a Vietnamese village. The novel is a composite of exciting sketches involving Phan’s residents, who are identified by... Read More

In the lighthearted picture book "Strawberry Ice Cream", a frozen treat on an adventure learns subtle lessons about neighborliness. In Suzannah Brock Morris’s jovial picture book "Strawberry Ice Cream", a scoop of ice cream seeks a... Read More