The eleven linked stories in Teresa Carmody’s novel focus on women engaging in creative writing and processing their traumatic pasts. The central character in the linked stories is Marie, who appears in all but one piece. Marie... Read More

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

Set in the 1960s and 1970s in a city where World War II still reverberates, Robert Seethaler’s tender novel "The Café with No Name" is about a Viennese restaurateur’s interactions with his acquaintances and customers. Robert,... 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 You Don’t Need to Forgive, trauma psychotherapist Amanda Ann Gregory challenges the assumption that forgiveness is a requirement for recovery. Drawing on Gregory’s dual experiences as a clinician and a survivor of childhood abuse... Read More

Zoë Gadegbeku’s lyrical hybrid novel "Blue Futures, Break Open" draws on colonialism in the Americas and Africa in addition to the history of the African diaspora to create a slant mythological response to some of the greatest... 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