"Bitterroot" is an intricate novel—a tapestry of family dynamics, generational trauma, and the pursuit of social justice in a small town. In Steeplejack in Idaho’s Bitterroot Mountains, Hazel, a forensic artist, is used to seeing... Read More
A timely reissue of Charlotte Haldane’s brilliant 1926 dystopian novel, Man’s World is set in a future where individual desires are sacrificed for communal good, women’s roles are prescribed, and genetic makeup is determined by... Read More
In Krysta Tawlks’s suspenseful fantasy novel "Children of the Wild", a teenager inherits the power to transform into a mythological creature. In the early twentieth century, fourteen-year-old Elbert is a farm boy living in the Salinas... Read More
A giant’s body falls from the sky, exposing extant rifts in a small Nebraska town in Van Jensen’s shocking novel "Godfall"—a murder mystery with a science fiction twist. Before the giant being—dubbed Gulliver by the... Read More
A layered scholar’s memoir, Susan J. Godwin’s "Rain Dodging" details and personalizes her research into the late seventeenth-century Stuart court of Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II. While studying at Oxford, Godwin became... Read More
In Sean Michaels’s prescient and fascinating novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", a famous poet is asked to co-write a poem with an AI. At seventy-five years old, Marian—who wears capes, a tricorn hat, and bikinis—is... Read More
In "A Nimble Arc", art historian and educator Emilie Boone shifts focus from photographer James Van Der Zee’s renowned Harlem Renaissance work to his role in documenting and advancing “quotidian” Black American life. Van Der Zee... Read More
Vasily Eroshenko uses simple tales to explore powerful, complex morals in "The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales". Storytellers have long used fairy tales and children’s stories as a means of delivering radical, even subversive... Read More