Featuring hundreds of stunning images of parks and public land across the US, Jacob W. Frank’s "Parklands" is an extraordinary book of nature photography that embraces outdoor adventures. A self-described nomad who has worked at... Read More

The nine intricate essays in Margot Singer’s collection "Secret Agent Man" braid investigations of womanhood, Jewishness, and family memory. The sly title piece contrasts spy movie clichés with the reality of Singer’s Czech-born... Read More

Chloe Michelle Howarth’s coming-of-age novel "Sunburn" simmers with first love, confusion, and quiet rebellion in sun-drenched 1990s Ireland. Lucy, a restless teenager, lives in Crossmore, Ireland, where “motherhood is the nearest... Read More

Chloé Caldwell’s inventive memoir "Trying" recreates her years of attempting to become pregnant. Caldwell devoted much of her thirties to trying to get pregnant via intrauterine insemination. She developed rituals to ease the grueling... Read More

In Ronnie Turner’s eerie novel "Small Fires", a land is ruled by tales of the devil. Suspected for murdering their parents, Lily and her beastly sister, Della, escape to the God-Forgotten, a remote island inhabited by the fearful Folk,... Read More

In Giulia Caminito’s mesmerizing novel The Lake’s Water is Never Sweet, an Italian girl navigates private treacheries and injustices. Gaia grows up in poverty, learning to be tough in a house whose concrete courtyard is her only... 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

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