The Moon Always Rising by Alice C. Early, She Writes Press, 2020, 364 pgs., $16.95. Eleanor (Els) Gordon is almost hollowed out by grief and stress and general burnout at the beginning of Alice...

1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton, Knopf, $32.50, 480 pgs. Even before the American Revolution was over, people were arguing about when it started. Was the kickoff date 1770,...

Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein, Henry Holt, 2020, $26, 221 pgs. Universal Love, the new story collection by Alexander Weinstein, the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of...

Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia by Marc Favreau, Little, Brown, 2019, 306 pgs., $19.99 Marc Favreau’s new book Spies opens with the gripping story of a woman who’d...

There You Are by Mathea Morais, Amberjack Publishing, 2019, 311 pages, $24.99 Mathea Morais teaches at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School and is the new director of the Noepe Center...

Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, by Lizabeth Cohen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, $35, 547 pages. “In every...

Around the World in Thirty Years by Shirley W. Mayhew, Music Street Press, 2019, 153 pages, $21. There are a few inherent perils in writing travel memoirs, of course. Some are caught up in the...

Deep Water Blues by Fred Waitzkin, Open Road, 143 pages, $17.99 . “Many times, I’ve made the long ocean voyage to Rum Cay to troll off the southeast corner of the island,” writes...

Purple Pride: A High School Coach’s Journey by Donald Herman, 2019, 179 pages, $15.95 Once upon a time in the 1980s, at a gala University of Iowa reception, a smiling functionary guided a...

Numbers are naturally uncertain on the point, but it’s estimated that in the present day roughly 250 million people are living in countries where they were not born. Millions and perhaps...