Love Like Water, Love Like Fire

A Soviet Jew reminisces about life in Leningrad under Communist rule.

The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise

Though persuasive in places, this exhaustive history overstates its case.

Folklorn

By Angela Mi Young Hur

Folklorn

A Korean American woman struggles to escape the transgenerational trauma that threatens her sanity.

Freedom

By Sebastian Junger

Freedom

An engaging but disjointed exploration of the meaning and costs of liberty.

Dirt

By Bill Buford

Dirt

An editor-turned-gourmand reflects on making a new life amid Europe’s culinary culture.

Sorry For Your Trouble

By Richard Ford

Sorry For Your Trouble

The literary heavyweight releases another collection that shows us how to go on.

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

An extraordinary tale of bravery on the battlefield and the home front.

My Good Son: A Novel

A tailor in post-Tiananmen China strives to make a better life for his grown child.