A young artist is drawn into an epic battle for Earth’s survival in Fernando Llor and Carles Dalmau’s graphic novel "Soma". Maya, a cigarette-smoking comic book artist, is stressed out by her deadlines, low pay, and dissatisfaction... Read More

As a young woman in 1972, Liese Greensfelder took what was supposed to be a short-term summer job working on a sheep farm in the mountains of rural Norway. She recounts what happened instead in her engaging memoir "Accidental Shepherd".... Read More

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