"Mirror Lake" might appear to be a mystery at first glance, but Andrée A. Michaud’s sometimes confounding, sometimes funny novel defies easy categorization. Recently relocated to an isolated lake in Maine, crotchety Robert and his dog... Read More

In Stephen King’s entertaining new crime novel "Later", an adolescent can see dead people. After witnessing a bicycle crash and meeting the dead cyclist, Jamie’s life turns into a self-described horror story. His mother Tia, the... Read More

The story of a community of women in crisis and the power they found through their will to save themselves, "The Rebel Nun" tells the fictional truth behind the historical rebellion of the Holy Cross nuns in 589 CE, as recounted in her... Read More

Recovering from pneumonia, Nellie Bly accepts an intrepid journalism student’s requests to meet and discuss her career in Luciana Cimino’s graphic biography "The Incredible Nellie Bly". In 1921, to celebrate the Columbia University... Read More

“Sex is messy. Un-sex is just as infinitely messy,” Myriam Steinberg writes in "Catalogue Baby", her graphic memoir about five grueling years of fertility treatment. By the time she became a parent, she’d had 125 blood draws, 151... Read More

Compiling recipes from refugee chefs of scattered origins, "The Kitchen without Borders" is a bridge-building cookbook. The catering company Eat Offbeat began in 2015, with the award of a seed grant from Columbia University to sister and... Read More

Arno takes his treasured toy horse everywhere; it reminds him “of other, far-off days.” But one day, the horse is lost. Though his friends are glad to help him retrace his steps in search of the horse, their investigations come up... Read More

A woman stands on a platform, suspended between two high-rise buildings. Then she is falling, somersaulting, creating beautiful sharp lines with her body. At the last possible moment, her arms open. She shoots into the sky, carried aloft... Read More