Kim Hooper’s "All the Acorns on the Forest Floor" is a novel profligate in its pursuit of an idea: motherhood. As an organizing principle, motherhood is constructed across a... Read More

For myriad reasons, King Cyrus II, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, is one of the most compelling figures of ancient history. Stephen Dando-Collins’s expert... Read More

Using delicious locally grown herbs and botanicals, Mike Wolf’s "Garden to Glass" crafts unique cocktails from gardened and foraged ingredients. Wolf, a talented bartender and... Read More

Addiction is a disease. Let’s never categorize addictive behavior—abusing alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, pornography—as anything other than heartbreaking. Furthermore,... Read More

At first, Sarah Carlson’s "All the Walls of Belfast" comes across as a solid variation of a meet-cute young adult romance, but Carlson’s story has even more going for it.... Read More

This glamorous thriller is enhanced by Laine’s background as a beverage manager and connoisseur. Ecoterrorism meets terroir in "Root Cause", an incisive new mystery that... Read More

It is easy to forget that as recently as twenty-five years ago, America’s drinking habits were anything but crafty and adventurous. We were a Bud country, we liked our... Read More

"Small Moving Parts" is an emotive, atmospheric, and memorable tour de force. Not to be missed. In 1958, on a summer’s night in Bufort, Texas, two strangers’ destinies... Read More

Flor Edwards’s "Apocalypse Child" is an engrossing account of growing up within the strangely insular Children of God cult. Followers of the cult, founded in the late 1960s by... Read More

Emotional but never sentimental, "All the Castles Burned" contrasts privilege with working-class struggles for a gripping story of human resilience. "All the Castles Burned" by... Read More

In 1961, twentysomething Sandra Hochman interviewed forty-three-year-old poet Robert Lowell for Encounter magazine. Lowell agreed to meet her—just a half hour after their... Read More

The end of life on Earth may be nigh in this satisfying, fascinating conclusion to Brody’s dystopia series. "The United Continuums" is the satisfying conclusion to Jennifer... Read More