A fishing village plagued by ghosts and omens unites to protect a refugee girl in Justin Haynes’s potent novel "Ibis". The site of a vicious sugar plantation centuries ago,... Read More

In Sharon Sochil Washington’s "The Blue Is Where God Lives", a Black woman makes discoveries about her family and herself. Eighteen months after her daughter’s murder, Blue... Read More

Love, loss, and sacrifice are at the center of Michael X. Wang’s historical novel "Lost in the Long March". The moment orphaned Ping sees Yong, he knows she is the one. Ping... Read More

Lars Mytting’s epic, enchanting historical novel "The Reindeer Hunters" ushers a remote Norwegian village into the modern age. In the twenty years since Butangen’s stave... Read More

In Steve Sem-Sandberg’s historical novel "W.", a soldier is sentenced to death for murder during the Napoleonic Wars. Always at the wrong place at the wrong time, Johann... Read More

Lars Mytting’s "The Sixteen Trees of the Somme" is an intricate and evocative literary mystery about an orphaned Norwegian man whose family history is caught in between two... Read More

Brad Kessler’s compelling and compassionate novel "North" follows Sahro, a young Somali woman who’s forced to flee to Canada to avoid deportation from the US. Detoured by a... Read More

A spirited young spiritualist rejects confinement in Victoria Mas’s electrifying historical novel The Mad Women’s Ball. At the end of the nineteenth century, otherwise... Read More

Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström’s "The Bucket List" is a classic Nordic noir thriller—tight, layered, and so chilly that it shivers. In the picturesque Swedish hills,... Read More

Its magic pure and its mysteries primordial, Lars Mytting’s novel "The Bell in the Lake" is a tour de force set in the untamed wilds of Norway. Fresh out of seminary, Kai... Read More

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s novel "Starling Days" is a gentle treatise on the anatomy of sadness, wherein the many manifestations of modern melancholy raise questions about what... Read More

Did you know that scientists can detect loneliness in our blood? It turns out that living in the most interconnected yet possibly the loneliest society in history comes with a... Read More