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Not a big reader of poetry, mostly because I’m too literal to understand most of it, I picked up Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Poetry with trepidation. Lucky for me, this book of poetry is unlike any I’ve ever read, in the best of ways.
While the poems (as you can surmise from the book’s title) are harrowing and tragic, within them are tales of kindness, survival and redemption. Grouped together in sections somewhat like chapters, after each section, Mandelkern provides a historical...

This book is proof positive that a free press is paramount to our society. Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, John Carreyou, with the help of some very brave mid-level ex-employees, took down a company valued at $10 billion in a multi-article...

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 2016 and a litany of other awards. It’s been in my “to be read” stack for quite some time, though I held off for a while as it seemed a weighty book.  Indeed, it was, but well...

When I saw Rush in the window of Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, I was anxious to read it. The cover art popped (yes, it’s important) and I was curious to see how the experience of sorority rush is portrayed in current times. Surprisingly, or maybe...