Essie Fox’s novel "The Fascination" is a scintillating cabinet of curiosities. Theo—whose mother died in childbirth and whose father is, for him, a question mark—grows up love-deprived, hidden on a country estate whose grandeur... Read More

While working as migrants, a Mi’kmaq family is rent by their daughter’s disappearance in Amanda Peters’s decades-spanning, heartrending novel "The Berry Pickers". Even before Ruthie disappeared from the Maine field where her... Read More

A sobering dispatch from a past marked by familiar prejudices, "The Trials of Madame Restell" is Nicholas L. Syrett’s consequential biography of a woman who defied changing norms to protect women’s health. Ann Trow—later known as... Read More

A paean to beauty, honor, and truth, "Bare Witness" is an expansive poetry collection that delights in experimentation. A fifty-year career retrospective, Joseph Small’s "Bare Witness" gathers beautiful images that attest to a lifelong... Read More

Mike Rothschild’s "Jewish Space Lasers" is a cutting exposé of centuries’-worth of antisemitic scapegoating, often done with one influential family at its center. “Where myth and mystique meet outsized wealth and great historical... Read More

A secret-keeping woman from polite society enters spiritualist circles somewhat against her will in Anbara Salam’s glittering historical novel "Hazardous Spirits". In the shadows of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, everyone in... Read More

A young woman with voracious appetites wonders if she is a victim, vixen, or somewhere in between in Tamara Faith Berger’s libidinous novel "Yara". At fifteen, Yara’s mother gifted her a new nose; she was ungracious. Two weeks later,... Read More

Roaring through a divine origin story with righteous feminist fury, "Lilith" demands a revision of what many think of as the truth. Lilith was not made for Adam—they were made for one another. Once, Adam knew this. But he began to... Read More