A Canadian man is trapped in a government camp in the historical graphic novel "Separated from Santo". Santo Pasqualini left Italy with his wife, Alice, in 1933, fearing Mussolini’s rise to power. They arrived in British Columbia, had... Read More

Giles Tremlett’s biography of Francisco Franco traces his fast rise through Spain’s military to take lasting totalitarian control of the nation. Focusing on a span from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until Franco’s death... Read More

Carry Somer’s fascinating book "The Nature of Fashion" is about how humans have used plants to make textiles across time. About the profound impact of textiles on the planet and on human society, the book begins by considering the... Read More

"Delaware Behaving Badly" is a fresh compendium of essays about a state’s true crime cases. Dave Tabler’s piquing regional true crime book sums up Delaware’s headline-stealing cases. Treating particular crimes as “windows into... Read More

Through its brief portraits of remarkable individuals, "Quiet Valor" issues a compelling argument for rethinking whom society chooses to remember. Larry Nouvel’s illuminating biographical compendium "Quiet Valor" celebrates a selection... Read More

In Susannah Fullerton’s creative biographical collection, seventeen cats are vehicles for stories of the authors who cared for them. “Since cats were first domesticated and since human beings first began to write,” the book notes,... Read More

One of Europe’s most visited centers is illuminated in Cynthia Paces’s erudite history book "Prague". Prague, Franz Kafka’s birthplace, has been called “the mistress of all Bohemia.” Here, this riverside site of political... Read More

In the interbellum, US officials sent about one million people of Mexican descent—citizens or otherwise—across the southern border in a coordinated program. In "Banished Citizens", Marla A. Ramírez tells this painful story through... Read More