Elegant and arresting, the eleven modern fables in Paola Ferrante’s Her Body among Animals thrum with a desperate, racing pulse as they capture the everyday horrors women live with and the sacrifices—of personhood, opportunity, and... Read More

Taras Grescoe’s investigative book "The Lost Supper" elevates the quest to eat sustainably into a jet-stetting journey to nine international destinations to learn ancient foodways and acquire traditional and Indigenous ingredients. An... Read More

Simultaneously heartwrenching and comical, Thomas Reed’s novel "Pocketful of Poseys" follows a family from the death of their matriarch to their journey to scatter her ashes. Cinny Posey, for all her upper-class panache, is an... Read More

Set in the early 1960s, Edward Cahill’s intriguing novel "Disorderly Men" concerns the aftermath of a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar. Sophisticated and “gray-flanneled” Roger is a World War II veteran, husband, and... Read More

John J. Berger’s ambitious environmental tome "Solving the Climate Crisis" sets forth practical policy solutions for addressing climate change. Eschewing doom and gloom, this forward-looking book outlines concrete steps toward... Read More

Joanne Anton’s "Sexus Botanicus" is an often playful, beautiful science book loaded with fascinating, substantive information about plants’ reproductive lives. Featuring clear, succinct prose and gorgeous color sketches, the book... 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

The unnamed narrator of Sheena Patel’s edgy novel I’m a Fan is a woman of color and a stalker. Although she lives with her doting boyfriend, the writer is having an affair with a rich, prominent, emotionally unavailable man who is... Read More