Literary
In Times of Fading Light
Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on…
Falling to Earth
The worst tornado in U.S. history ripped through the Midwest on March 18, 1925. It killed at least 747 people…
The Obituary Writer
Claire, Peter and Kathy are a typical family in 1960s America, obsessed with burgeoning success, the incoming President, John F.…
Motherland
“Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer…
The Mussolini Canal
Editors' choice
Many dictators from Nero to Napoleon had set out to drain the Italy’s malarial Pontine Marshes, but it was Mussolini…
A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa
Since she was a young woman, Emma has felt a calling to serve God. She is also drawn to Africa,…
The Monster’s Lament
London in the spring of 1945, and the country is starting to think about the ending of the Second World…
She Rises
When dairymaid Louise Fletcher is whisked away from her life on Handley’s farm to become a lady’s maid to Handley’s…
The Third Son
Saburo and his family live in Japanese-occupied Taoyuan (Taiwan) in the 1930s. Her father has learned to adapt to the…
The Lightning Dreamer
Illumination of the 19th-century fight for rights and human dignity turns to another corner of our hemisphere: the island of…
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