Ella Buchan and Alessandra Pino’s "A Gothic Cookbook" combines recipes with food-based literary critiques of the Gothic stories that inspired them. These meals, snacks, and beverages are either direct recreations from the source texts,... Read More

Larry Carlat’s "A Space in the Heart" is a sensitive guidebook for grieving parents. Holding space for unspeakable grief, Carlat, who lost a son to suicide, draws on lived experience in this guide for fellow grieving parents,... Read More

A disgraced writer fails to confront or acknowledge his crimes in Tova Reich’s discomfiting novel "Camp Jeff". Jeffrey Epstein (not that one) founded Camp Jeff to rehabilitate people like Gershon, a high-profile author brought down by... Read More

Suggesting means of balancing between delight, satisfaction, and excitement in one’s working life, Don’t Settle is an encouraging professional discernment guide. George Appling’s shrewd business guide Don’t Settle recommends... Read More

Telmo Pievani’s provocative book "Serendipity" integrates literature, philosophy, and science to explore an idea crucial to scientific discovery. Pievani notes that in the Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip,”... Read More

Elisa Albert’s ranging essay collection "The Snarling Girl" includes sixteen pieces published over the last ten years in venues including Longreads, New York magazine’s The Cut, The Forward, and Lit Hub. Their topics include feminist... Read More

In Simon Van Booy’s charming novel "Sipsworth", a widow and a mouse forge an unexpected, exceptional bond. Helen grieves for her husband, her son, and the strength of her once-youthful body. She returns to the village of her childhood,... Read More

A mother meant to be in mourning chases her daughter’s shadow to Guatemala, determined to uncover the truth, in Andromeda Romano-Lax’s electrifying thriller "The Deepest Lake". Jules, just out of college and unsure of her perfect... Read More