The Art of Snail Mail
With her inviting The Art of Snail Mail, Martina Calvi brings back the joy of written correspondence through projects for adults and children alike.
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Ciara LeRoy’s Lettered in Thread leaps beyond your grandmother’s framed platitudes. This wonderful guide to hand-lettered embroidery encourages using contemporary designs to tell stories.
View ArticleElizabeth Hand’s gothic 1920s
The author moves beyond cliché depictions of the decade in Unspeakable Things, which centers the era’s precarious yet still joyous sense of queer liberation.
View ArticleUnspeakable Things
Elizabeth Hand masterfully uses the gothic to explore the tumult of the ’20s in her bold and brilliantly written queer thriller Unspeakable Things.
View ArticleThe Pizza Brothers
The Pizza Brothers is a silly and satisfying tale of comeuppance where the moral of the story is so skillfully integrated with the plot that it goes down as easy as a perfectly baked slice.
View ArticleThe Ones Who Came Before
The Ones Who Came Before is not only an excellent reminder about our country’s Native heritage, but also a beautifully written and illustrated book about identity and belonging.
View ArticleThe Bookshop
Andrew Pettegree’s lively, engaging The Bookshop takes readers through six centuries of bookselling, from horse-and-cart itinerant booksellers to Amazon.
View ArticleSerling
Alan Sepinwall’s Serling is a revealing, thought-provoking biography of the complicated and endlessly influential Rod Serling.
View ArticleGathering the Light
Gathering the Light is overflowing with grace and comfort as it follows a day in the life of a young girl and her dog as they celebrate the sun’s daily journey across the sky.
View ArticleAn American Girl
Amanda FitzSimons’ well-researched An American Girl provides unmatched insight into the doll juggernaut’s impact on American girlhood, the toy industry and the telling of history.
View ArticleWe Chase Shadows
The We Solve Murders crew has their first case as an official agency in Richard Osman’s hilarious and lovable We Chase Shadows.
View ArticleThe AGI Chronicles
The AGI Chronicles is a riveting account of staggering advances in artificial intelligence models—and a very human tale of their creators’ bitter rivalries and grandiose ambitions.
View ArticleStories in the Seams
With Stories in the Seams, Sharbreon Plummer connects Black quiltmaking traditions to artists of all kinds, illuminating connections that have deepened and strengthened their mediums.
View ArticleSanctum
In his haunting, alluring Sanctum, author-photographer Mark C. O’Flaherty chronicles gothic interiors.
View ArticlePetrified Dreams
In Joe R. Lansdale’s final Hap & Leonard mystery, elements of The Silence of the Lambs and Rambo combine for terror and testosterone in abundance.
View ArticleThe Tulip Poplars
The eighth novel from Silas House, The Tulip Poplars is a story of the dissonance when one’s experiences chafe against their inherited values, set in the beautiful Kentucky hill country at a dark point...
View ArticlePartita
In Partita, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver tells the story of an Appalachian pianist and explores a question for the ages: What is and isn’t worth settling for?
View ArticleSilly delights or a spooky night
Choose your perfect Halloween adventure from these four festive reads, ranging from middle grade to young adult novels.
View Article16 frights and delights for Halloween
This year’s best Halloween offerings fall (with two witchy exceptions) into two distinct camps.
View Article2 tales of witches
Alice Hoffman's historical fantasy and K.S. Shay's intriguing debut are both set in that most magical of regions: New England.
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