The devastation wrought upon US farming communities is tracked in Sonja Trom Eayrs’s courageous book "Dodge County, Inc.", in which the family farm that Eayrs grew up on becomes a microcosmic example of the ills afflicting thousands of... Read More

In Graeme Macrae Burnet’s kaleidoscopic novel "A Case of Matricide", an inspector’s investigation into doppelgänger circumstances forces a confrontation with morality. Masquerading as a translation of a French novel whose author,... Read More

Marguerite Sheffer’s short story anthology "The Man in the Banana Trees" centers on wreckage and restoration. Many of the stories evince interest in the psychology behind science. In “Rickey,” a teacher struggles to regulate a... Read More

With noir pacing, a laid-back sensibility, and a touch of humor, the newest book in Andy Weinberger’s Amos Parisman detective series, the cozy mystery novel "The Gonif" finds the elderly detective navigating a crime impacting the... Read More

Journalist Yazan Al-Saadi’s comics collaboration "Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches" delivers moment-in-time reports from the Middle East. Beginning with the Lebanese uprisings in October of 2019, the book unfolds events day by... Read More

Stacey Simmons’s The Queen’s Path is a self-help guide to women’s sovereignty that exposes patriarchy’s hostility toward women and suggests ways to break free of cultural and social expectations. Arguing that women are burdened... Read More

In A. M. Shine’s captivating fantasy novel "Stay in the Light", people attempt to outrun frightening and powerful creatures called the Watchers. The Watchers are changelings who take on the appearance of human beings and hide out in... Read More

"Malcolm Before X" focuses on the early years of Malcolm X’s life and the experiences that shaped the man he became. Though its biographical portions cover only the first twenty-seven years of Malcolm’s life, the book spans decades,... Read More