Bring your pressing questions to Alexandra Eldridge and Sherry Salman’s lush deck "The Oracle of Rewilding", which confronts Anthropocene dissonance and damage with a refreshed sense of reverence and possibility. A deck for “the... Read More

Complemented by charming illustrations, "Smalltown City and the Spirit of City Hall" is Nancy Pearson’s illuminating chapter book about an edifying field trip that continues through a terrifying storm. Though they don’t know it when... Read More

Enthralling and surreal, An Yu’s dystopian novel "Sunbirth" reconsiders approaches to the end of the world. Though the citizens of Five Poems Lake have had twelve years to adjust to the incremental loss of the sun, they still feel... Read More

A murdered girl’s essence persists, her body resisting deterioration and inspiring whispers of miracles, in Josephine Rowe’s radiant novel "Little World". The body of a child, a possible saint-to-be, arrives in the Australian desert,... Read More

Skewering news media for acts of brazen laziness and inhumane “neutrality,” Phoebe Greenwood’s bawdy satirical novel "Vulture" addresses the Israel-Palestine conflict from the protected sidelines. Sara, an English reporter in Gaza,... Read More

Generations of women face the consequences of their dark bargains in Irene Solà’s wickedly sumptuous novel "I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness". In a prewar period of privation, Joana decides not to die hungry and alone.... Read More

Generational pains are soothed by supernatural revelations in Kathleen Kaufman’s captivating historical novel "The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey". Following the death of Nairna’s grandmother, her absent... Read More

In Joanna Howard’s sardonic novel "Porthole", a famed director is forced to seek rest following the death of her star. Yacht-raised by an uncle who cycled between young women and filmed it all, Helena learned to master classic film... Read More