With elements of magical realism, Tathagata Bhattacharya’s rollicking satirical novel "General Firebrand and His Red Atlas" covers the machinations of political alliances and regimes. On the Indian subcontinent, the guerrillas of Sands... Read More

In theologian David Bentley Hart’s erudite short story collection, characters from Greek myths and literature have happenstance encounters with scholars and others. Hinting at both focused, rational ways of understanding the tangible... Read More

A historically insightful memoir, "The Shochet" trades between humorous and grave descriptions of rural Jewish life in nineteenth-century Ukraine. The engrossing memoir of a Hasidic Jew living under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, volume one... Read More