“Catapult” works because of its aw-shucks quality. Despite the sidebars into prickly themes, the book never strays far from ...

Few things are quite as uplifting as a good underdog narrative. Joshua Davis’s 2014 book “Spare Parts” delivers that, telling ...

Though their relationship is barbed at best, the bitter jabs and manipulative comments between them prompt engaging insights on modern culture, class guilt and reckoning with dark family histories.— ...