In her outstanding book-length essay "Immemorial", Lauren Markham compares language, memorials, and rituals as strategies for coping with climate anxiety and grief. Monuments to famous men are passé, the work insists; instead, it is... Read More

A beautiful love letter to the power of reading, Katherine Paterson’s biography of Jella Lepman covers how she built a massive literary collection for the children of post–World War II Germany. Lepman endured the death of her World... Read More

In Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s scintillating historical novel "Mutual Interest", an unconventional arrangement leads to business success in post–Gilded Age New York. Determined to escape the confines of upstate New York,... Read More

In "Ricochet", Kellyn Carni’s fresh take on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of Russia’s last ruling family, Anastasia Romanov takes the reins and tells her own story. Anastasia and her brother Alexei always had a... Read More

Neil Taylor’s thriller "Anticipation" unravels a high-tech mystery in an unsettling near-future scenario. Riya is a math and machine-learning savant who lost her technology genius father in a plane accident. When she learns that his... Read More

In Alex Mullarky’s novel "The Edge of the Silver Sea", a city girl uprooted by her parents’ dreams tries to find her way home. Upon Blair’s first glimpse of her new home, Roscoe, from the ferry, she is stunned by its terrain, which... Read More

Based on Dac Trung Tran’s childhood in Vietnam, this picture book illustrates the invisible hand of a mother’s love guiding her son’s steps. A child wakes early; his mother has already left for work, leaving him a note listing what... Read More

Comedy stirs between like-minded writers and meddlesome matchmakers in John J. Jacobson’s romance novel "Cupid on the Loose", about Californians who bond over Shakespeare. Billy is an aspiring novelist with a penchant for old-fashioned... Read More