Shelly Reuben’s My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree is the work of great imagination, as inspiring as it is engaging. It’s a story about the life of a community, centered on a park and told by a climbing tree. Sam Swerling is...

In The Boys of Sabbath Street, Shelly Reuben has created a mystery that is cozy in every sense of the word. Following a series of scandals, the little town of Calendar has come to adopt a rather unusual form of local government, in the person...

Dabbling in Crime: Death of a Violinist and Other Stories is an intriguing and fascinating collection of short stories by Shelly Reuben. The collection starts with the story of a young violinist, a prodigy aptly named by the narrator (a New York cop) as Dante...