What happens when a suicide attempt fails? For Amelia, a psychiatric patient whose internal playlist and warring voices besiege her, it leads to three weeks on the ward. LJT’s fictionalized memoir "Practical Blasphemy" portrays bipolar... Read More

Bob Eckstein selects cartoons whose themes are critics and criticism in the collection Everyone’s a Critic. Eckstein, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MAD Magazine, has picked a perfect topic: in the... Read More

Jack El-Hai’s true crime story "The Lost Brothers" focuses on the disappearance of three young Minneapolis boys in November of 1951. Kenneth, David, and Danny Klein went to play at a park mere blocks from their home, but they never... Read More

Sarah Cole’s fascinating literary investigation "Inventing Tomorrow" shows how H. G. Wells’s work is relevant and meaningful today. Beginning by juxtaposing Virginia Woolf’s heady novels with H. G. Wells’s brash journalistic... Read More

In the recent past, a battle among witches led to the murder of the high priestess Athena. Pat Esden’s second book in a suspenseful, paranormal romance series is Things She’s Seen, covering the investigation into, and fallout from,... Read More

Jamie Anderson’s cultural survey "An Army of Lovers" focuses on revolutionary women’s music and how it influenced others. Women’s music—music by, for, and about women—addresses topics from love and healing to racism and... Read More

Inspiring and affirming, "Roots and Wings" is a business memoir with pithy lessons for both work and home. Margery Kraus’s personable career memoir "Roots and Wings" is about both leading a company and the parenting lessons that... Read More

Cameron Dezen Hammon’s memoir "This Is My Body" is about both her career as a musical worship leader and her relationship struggles. It is a moving, valuable look at the social structures of evangelical Christianity, the treatment of... Read More