Joseph Matthews’s clamorous, complex novel "The Blast" is set in San Francisco in 1916. It contrasts the city’s burgeoning capitalist prosperity with its increasing climate of social unrest. Blue is a born San Franciscan of Sicilian... Read More

Three art thieves risk the biggest heist of their careers in the charming, exciting graphic novel "Olympia". Alex and Sam, absent their companion Carole, are planning to steal a valuable helmet from an army museum. They think Carole is... Read More

A girl recovering from illness longs to participate in her tribal powwow in this vibrant picture book about acceptance and hope. Delicate feathers and fringe adorn brilliant gold, pink, and turquoise ensembles as River’s friends and... Read More

Rebekah Iliff’s "Champagne for One" turns myths about solitude on their head. A lighthearted miscellany of stories, poems, and satire, it paints aloneness as something to be prized, rather than pitied. Iliff sets out to banish the... Read More

Intelligent and humorous, "To Drink and to Eat" covers Guillaume Long’s delightful culinary adventures. Long doesn’t claim to be a food critic, but his work with Le Monde, and his previous volumes of "To Drink and to Eat",... Read More

"Literature for a Changing Planet" articulates a new framework for reading classic and contemporary literature to better understand humanity’s damaging planetary impacts. This cogent, passionate text argues for a comprehensive... Read More

In Mónica Ojeda’s sinuous novel "Jawbone", six wealthy private school girls form a dangerous clique. The six girls share obsessions with Instagram, crocodiles, La Llorona, Slender Man, and the cropped chic of... Read More

In C. A. Davids’s novel "How to Be a Revolutionary", two people from opposite ends of the world connect and are separated by political and personal secrets. Beth, a South African haunted by her turbulent youth and failing marriage,... Read More