Canadian actor Layne Coleman’s "An Open-Ended Run" is a reflective memoir-in-essays. From the vantage of his sixties, Coleman grapples with childhood trauma, the death of his wife, and how loss shaped his and his daughter’s lives.... Read More

Black lesbian feminist Cheryl Clarke’s five-decade poetry career accommodated a second pursuit—a little matter of changing the world to be a better place for Black women, the LGBTQ+ community, and the disenfranchised. A veteran of... Read More

Comprehensive and analytical, Benjamin Nathans’s "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause" vivifies the Soviet intellectuals at the complex heart of the human-rights-oriented dissidence movement in the USSR. In the aftermath of the terror... Read More

The threat of climate change looms over the short stories of Ashley Shelby’s "Honeymoons in Temporary Locations", resulting in a zesty mix of humor, speculative science fiction, and melancholia. Set in a future wracked by environmental... Read More

Resembling an updated Devil’s Dictionary with its sarcastic definitions of buzzwords and euphemistic phrases, "A Dictionary of Modern Consternation" sifts through business and technology jargon and slang vocabulary in a subversive... Read More

A mix of memoir with literary criticism, Lawrence Wells’s "Ghostwriter" dives into the Shakespeare authorship debate from the perspective of a skeptic working alongside a staunch believer. Wells was approached to ghostwrite a book for... Read More

Drawing on oral history, photographs, and letters, Darius and Catherine Brubeck revisit their inauguration of a fertile jazz music launchpad in South Africa during and after apartheid in "Playing the Changes". The book’s vibrant... Read More

Jim Baggott and John L. Heilbron explore the combative history of quantum mechanics in their science book "Quantum Drama". Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr are among the most famous men in physics, yet they employed very different... Read More