The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
Deesha Philyaw has created a highly memorable character in Scharisse Freeman, a woman who finds that her middle-aged happy ending is not at all what she once thought it would be.
View ArticleThe Radiance
Ayad Akhtar’s metafictional third novel, The Radiance, is a strangely enlightening campus tale combining the psychological fallout from an injury with the perils of writing autofiction.
View ArticleDodge City
In Dodge City, Patrick deWitt admirably captures the conflicted mind of a young man from a dysfunctional family living in an era of unsettling change.
View Article‘The Vanishing Family’ investigates a shattering form of dementia that...
Robert Kolker tracks a family’s cascading history of heartbreak as they uncover the disease that’s transforming them, one at a time.
View ArticleMin Jin Lee’s ‘American Hagwon’: A study in studying
To write the third novel in her quartet about the Korean diaspora, the Pachinko author immersed herself in the world of after-school tutoring.
View ArticleThe Vanishing Family
With his breathtaking chronicle of a family with a rare form of dementia, Robert Kolker claims his title as the Ann Patchett of nonfiction family dramas.
View ArticleDolly Day!
In the wake of Dolly Parton's passing, September 25th has officially been deemed Dolly Day in reference to her iconic hit "9 To 5." This year, we're celebrating by revisiting some of the many books...
View ArticleThe Nightingales
The art in Emil Wilson’s monumental graphic novel, The Nightingales, is as tender, messy and raw as the unresolvable feelings of its characters.
View ArticleMurder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
Lucy Foley’s authorized take on Miss Marple is electric, a tightly plotted mystery set firmly in the 1950s that somehow still feels modern.
View ArticleMazywood
A young woman with dreams of stardom makes a wish—and things go downhill from there in Tananarive Due’s terrific, complex Mazywood.
View ArticleAvalon, Rise
Madeline ffitch’s second novel, Avalon, Rise, is a humane and timely work about the turmoil incited when neo-Nazis start gaining power in a fading Appalachian town.
View ArticleCelebrate spooky season with a spine-tingling novel for your book club
Horrify your book club with Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory or Jennifer Thorne’s Diavola. Happy haunting!
View ArticleYou’re the One That I Haunt
A paranormal romance with the feel of a classic rom-com, You’re the One That I Haunt delivers full-throttle charm.
View ArticleTo Our Untamed Core
To Our Untamed Core by Sonido Reyes is both a page-turning adventure and a solemn reflection on power, choices and identity.
View ArticleThe Fantastic Floating Mr. Finnegan
The Fantastic Floating Mr. Finnegan is brimming with charming, clever illustrations that encourage readers to embrace their quirks and value those who celebrate them just as they are.
View ArticleMama Came Callin’
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre’s smoldering swamp noir takes off from the history of the despicable racist trope of Black children being used as alligator bait.
View ArticleI Won’t Pretend These Missiles Are Stars
In this wrenching, heart-in-your-throat comics anthology, I Won’t Pretend These Missiles Are Stars, 15 cartoonists from Tehran describe living through the 2025 Israeli bombing.
View ArticleHow to Write a Murder
Fans of puzzles, meta storytelling and mysteries about mysteries will devour Jessica Brody’s love letter to classic crime fiction.
View ArticleHappy Snacking, Don’t Die!
Alexis Nikole Nelson, known on social media as Black Forager, pads practical advice and inventive recipes with humor in her vegan cookbook, Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!
View ArticleFemale Life on Planet Earth
It’s really difficult to deliver a complex blend of the personal and the political in fiction. In Female Life on Planet Earth, Laleh Khadivi does it gorgeously.
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