★ Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

Sexual assault victims contemplate the legal system with foreboding, their instincts for self-preservation sharpened by the experience of sexual assault itself. The punishing cross-examinations of victims in sexual assault trials are well known. Progressive changes ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Seb and the Sun

By Jami Gigot

Back in 2011, disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly made a baffling on-air argument for the existence of God: “Tide goes in, tide goes out,” he said to his guest, an outspoken atheist. “You ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boy and the Blue Moon

By Ashley Crowley (ill.); Sara O’Leary

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Comedian

By Clem Martini

Prolific novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Clem Martini focuses on his beloved theatre world – the milieu in which he has spent much of his professional life – with this clever first-person novel about classical Roman ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture

By Adam Montgomery; Stéphane Grenier

The body of the little girl lies bunched on the ground, her arms splayed forward. A few feet away is the bloated body of a man who could be her father or possibly her grandfather. ... Read More »

February 22, 2018 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

A Girl Like That

By Tanaz Bhathena

Tanaz Bhathena’s debut novel begins with a car crash. Teenagers Zarin and Porus are killed on a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Their ghosts linger above the wreckage, where they watch family members react to ... Read More »

February 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

By Kim Fu

When Kim Fu’s debut novel, For Today I Am a Boy, appeared in 2014, it was met with acclaim and awards, as much for its story – about a transgender Chinese-Canadian boy named Peter fighting ... Read More »

February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Journey of Little Charlie

By Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis’s latest book is a companion to both his Newbery Honor–winner Elijah of Buxton and its follow-up, The Madman of Piney Woods. Both of these earlier books take place in Buxton, the real-life ... Read More »

February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

By David Frum

David Frum is a conservative. He has been affiliated with both the right-wing U.K. think tank Policy Exchange and the American Enterprise Institute, and was a senior adviser to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Boat People

By Sharon Bala

“Exhaustion whenever he thought of the future; terror when he remembered the past.” That is the dark introduction to Mahindan, the protagonist of Sharon Bala’s debut novel. Along with nearly 500 other Sri Lankan refugees, ... Read More »

February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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