Sophia Alexander, author

  Emerson and Gladwell are polar extremes, but if we could get their better ideas to meet up in the middle, we might have something reasonab...

Hurrah to Nadine Akkerman for her amazing biography of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, a major political force during the Thirty Years W...

  Silk: Caroline's Story made it to the just-released Short List for the 2021 Goethe Awards!  Honestly, the short list doesn't seem ...

Huda—I’ll refer to the author by her first name, as that’s the one she uses throughout the audiobook to refer to herself, mostly—is an Ameri...

First Principles by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks is about the four first presidents of the United States, their educat...

I’ve taken my time reading through this collection of McKinley’s short fantasy stories. It's called A Knot in the Grain and Other Storie...

Charleston’s Daughter by Sabra Waldfogel is a tale of two cousins in the Lowcountry of South Carolina in the years shortly before the Civil...