Packed with cultural references, Court of Capricorn is a mighty play that draws upon myths and traditions well. A group of powerful figures based on the Zodiac squabble, debate, love, and kill each other while deciding the fate of... Read More

"Young Americans" is a visceral novel about treachery, filled with colorful period details. In Peter S. Rush’s "Young Americans", a hard-boiled crime novel set in the 1970s, an ambitious marijuana dealer is betrayed after he tries... Read More

"The Black Suitcase Mystery" looks back on a loving project that put couples, children, and combat veterans into conversation with one another. Gail Elliott Downs’s surprising education memoir "The Black Suitcase Mystery" recalls how... Read More

In this accomplished travel memoir, India beguiles and repels and beguiles again. Eytan Uliel’s Head Waggling in Delhi: And Other Travel Tales from an Epic Journey Around India revisits the Australian author’s tour through an... Read More

When two members of Vancouver’s Gujarati Indian community marry, they have no idea that their daughters, Gia and Serena, are destined to complete the cycle of sororial tension begun in their mother’s generation. These sisters come... Read More

Paula Martinac’s latest novel, "Clio Rising", is both a story of lesbian friendship and a literary mystery. Livvie Bliss—a young, out lesbian fresh from the North Carolina countryside—and Clio Hartt—a closeted lesbian known for... Read More