In Suja Sukumar’s thriller "When Mimi Went Missing", a teenager whose cousin disappeared grieves for their seemingly lost sisterhood. When she was eight, Tanvi moved in with her aunt and cousin after her mother murdered her father.... Read More

Reporter Jen Stout’s "Night Train to Odesa" is a heartbreaking memoir about the Ukrainian people’s fight to survive a relentless war. Offered a journalism scholarship in Moscow, Stout arrived in Russia during Putin’s regime. When... Read More

"The Diapause", Andrew Forbes’s speculative fiction treatise on a postplague world, is both a grim look at the dark side of survivalist psychosis and a heartbreaking love letter to the disappearing worlds around us. Gabe is an only... Read More

Sandra Tyler’s intimate and affecting memoir "The Night Garden of My Mother" is about caring for her aged mother as she slid into frailty and dementia. Nestled within this fractured daily life of emergencies and interruptions, Tyler... Read More

In Jessica Mills’s absorbing biographical novel "The English Chemist", the scientist responsible for discovering the illusive structure of DNA is denied recognition due to the duplicity of her colleagues. Rosalind Franklin, a scientist... Read More

A comprehensive guide for recovery allies, You Don’t Have to Quit is flush with scientific, therapeutic, and medical information alongside its personal stories of helping a partner manage his alcohol use disorder. Maureen Palmer’s... Read More

The social science guide "Civil Unity" recommends means of building a more thoughtful and considerate world, one conversation or social media post at a time. Shola Richards’s thoughtful social science manifesto "Civil Unity" is about... Read More

Monika Kim’s bold, brutal novel "The Eyes Are the Best Part" sears with feminine rage and unflinching body horror. Ji-won is not the perfect first-generation American daughter. She is friendless, average in academics, and lacks the... Read More