The Illustration Institute has brought more than 50 illustrators from around the world to its residency program, made possible by donated property, over the past three years.

In one storyline, a notorious outlaw hides as an army camel driver. In the other alternating plot, an Arizona frontierswoman runs out of water.

‘The Women Who Caught the Babies’ is a series of connected poems by Eloise Greenfield about midwives and their role in African-American culture.

Maine-based writer Patricia Levy’s latest novel may be an interesting academic exercise, but neither the characters nor the dramatic arc ever achieve lift-off.

The author, who died in 2010, live a reclusive life in Cornish, N.H.