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Good Morning, Monster, offers the reader compelling profiles in courage by telling the stories of five patients who faced significant challenges to their mental health. In her author’s note, [...]

What is a normal person or relationship? These are the central questions of Sally Rooney’s second novel Normal People that was nominated for the Booker award. Rooney tells the story of the [...]

For many in Europe, November 11, 1918 did not mark the end of a war but in fact the beginning of one. The collapse of the Russian, German and Austrian empires threw middle and eastern Europe into [...]

Philip Marlowe, the quintessential private detective, is the creation of the late Raymond Chandler, who died in 1959.  Marlowe was tough-talking, street-smart and could handle himself in tight [...]

What do you get when you mix Charles Dickens with a helping of John Irving and a dash of Gabriel García Márquez? Well, you might get Songs for the Cold of Heart, an epic novel that tells the [...]

Transcription, written by Kate Atkinson, offers a tale of spies, Nazi sympathizers and double agents. Set in London, the novel bounces back and forth between two time periods, 1940 and 1950 and [...]

Editor: By now, most of your readers will have read or heard about the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. It concludes that climate change is happening faster than was [...]

If you read Foe by Iain Reid, fasten your seat belt because you are in for a roller coaster ride. The main characters are Hen and Junior. They are married with no children and live on a farm far [...]

“There’s no there there,” Gertrude Stein said about her hometown Oakland, California. Today that phrase is often applied to a person or place that has no distinctive identity. By borrowing the [...]

How much pressure can a marriage take? That is one of the questions posed by Tish Cohen’s Little Green. Elise Sorenson is a dressage rider intent on making the U.S. Olympic team. Her husband [...]