Louise Omer’s "Holy Woman" is an earnest memoir based around informal pilgrimages to meet women faith leaders in search of a spirituality free of men’s domination. Drawn by a charismatic pastor and rock concert-like revivals, Omer... Read More
The residents of an abandoned apartment complex eke out an outskirts living in Cho Nam-Joo’s dystopian novel "Saha". Thirty years ago, Saha Estates was a bustling apartment community. Then a corporation bought out the nearby town and... Read More
In Edward J. Delaney’s historical novel "The Acrobat", Cary Grant is at the height of his career. He navigates reconciling his past with his present and turns an eye toward embracing his future. Archie Leach dreamed of treading the... Read More
A psychology enthusiast dives into writings by and about his favorite psychologist in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s literary novel "Case Study". Upon discovering that her sister had been seeing rogue psychologist Collins Braithwaite before... Read More
Marked by gratitude, "Turning" is a personalized self-help text that encourages people to envision more for their third acts. Part memoir and part self-help work, geriatric nurse Becky Blue’s "Turning" concerns the culture of aging and... Read More
Tessa Brunton shares her experiences living with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, in her graphic memoir "Notes from a Sickbed". Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a little-understood disease that produces... Read More
In Hemley Boum’s novel Days Come & Go, a woman’s terminal diagnosis triggers memories of her family’s tragic history. Anna grew up without a mother. Her daughter, Abi, has never known a world without her mother in it. But Anna... Read More
In "Back to the Moon", astrophysicist Joseph Silk makes a compelling argument for a return to the moon and lays out an exciting vision for the next fifty years of lunar science. Silk presents an exciting scenario featuring massive... Read More