"Sammy’s Monsterous Thoughts" is a positive picture book in which a young inventor works through her toughest challenge yet. In Derek Pedersen’s charming picture book "Sammy’s Monsterous Thoughts", a young inventor entertains... Read More

We can convince ourselves that we know Midwestern soil, a stream bank, the stillness of a cedar fence post, but Ted Kooser shows otherwise in this collection of eighteen poems, his fifteenth collection. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner,... Read More

In Michael Daley’s novel "Telémachus", a painter seeks to learn about Mac, the father who abandoned him. This update of the tale of Ulysses’s left-behind son includes a flight from accountability, a heroic cycle, and testimonies... Read More

Negesti Kaudo probes her most formative experiences in her demanding essay collection "Ripe". This is an intentional collection exploring Kaudo’s discovery of herself, and her Blackness, in relation to personal and collective... Read More

Fans of the bestselling Italian novelist Elena Ferrante will delight in her new collection of eloquent, revelatory essays about what motivates (and bedevils) her as a writer. These Ferrante lectures, commissioned by the University of... Read More

Death and desire take many forms in Suzanne Roberts’s essay collection "Animal Bodies". Across three sections, two concepts rise to the fore: grief and discovery. In the immediate sense, the first section is about death, specifically... Read More

Peter McDade’s original, quirky novel "Songs by Honeybird" riffs on the 1960s Southern rock scene. In Atlanta, Ben and Nina’s relationship falls apart, even as they move in together. She claims that her dog, Sid, is a reincarnated... Read More

In the early reader "Maddie and Mabel", two sisters act in counter to each other, each trying to figure out how she fits into their special relationship. Maddie is the older sister; Mabel is the younger. Maddie tries to boss her little... Read More