Sara El Sayed’s heartwarming, humorous memoir "Muddy People" concerns her life growing up in an Egyptian Muslim family in Australia. El Sayed’s childhood was both messy and marked by feelings of being “other.” When she was a... Read More

A prodigal son comes home in the wake of tragedy in Jabbour Douaihy’s compelling novel "The King of India". After several years and a storied life abroad, Zakariya returns to Lebanon. Surrounded by an air of melancholy, he interacts... Read More

Ken Kalfus’s novel "2 A.M. in Little America" takes a disturbing plunge into a troubled future. Before the US descended into violent chaos, Ron—fresh out of high school, indistinctive, and without a taste for factions or... Read More

Carlo Gébler’s "I, Antigone", recounts the Greek tragedy of Oedipus Rex. Speaking with anguish, eloquence, and love, Oedipus’s daughter, Antigone, tells Oedipus’s story to justify her father’s actions. Oedipus’s curse begins... Read More

Eleanor Ford’s enticing cookbook "The Nutmeg Trail" explores the global history and use of spices—not just in cuisine, but in medicinal remedies, incense, and aphrodisiacs. Ford notes that the spice trade lured explorers for... Read More

In "Fixing the Climate", David G. Victor and Charles F. Sabel note that international climate change accords have not initiated the sweeping changes and deep decarbonization needed to avert environmental catastrophe. Thus, a different... Read More