Michael Cunningham’s gorgeous prose gives Day a dreamy, timeless feel as it examines a family’s strands of connection and disconnection, along with the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The posthumously published final volume of poems by Saskia Hamilton conveys a richness of stories in beautifully captured vignettes.
There’s a line of Robert Frost’s—that a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” Hirshfield’s The Asking moves through both together, compelling the reader to wisdom and delight at interlocking, interconnected turns.
Personal Best is an engaging, thoughtful gift for any fan of poetry: an anthology of favorite poems selected by poets from their own bodies of work and accompanied by their explications of the choices that make the poems sing.
Major Jackson’s poems are vibrant and engaging, examining life in America, racial injustice, and the ways that humans and nature intertwine and connect.
Poems of faith and doubt, wounds and wonder: The moments collected in Kazim Ali’s Sukun are surprising and approachable.
The sharply unapologetic stories in Louise Kennedy’s accomplished collection confirm her place as a trenchant, keen observer of the violence and turmoil that live inside.
Claire Keegan’s lapidary style demands that her work be consumed slowly, sentence by lovely sentence. Her latest collection, So Late in the Day, will only enhance her increasing regard among American readers.
We sometimes forget that the descent in Dante’s Divine Comedy is a journey toward God. Jesmyn Ward’s portrayal of slavery is the profound manifestation of that possibility.
The Future is a daring, sexy, thrilling novel that may be the most wryly funny book about the end of civilization you’ll ever read.
Naoise Dolan reveals the humanity and vulnerability of all her characters through a cleverly executed multiperspectival structure that makes The Happy Couple a standout.
The Liberators is another resounding triumph for E.J. Koh: a brave exploration of the complexities of the human experience and the impossible task of making peace with the past.
A Mexican American woman is visited by the ghost of her father-in-law every Day of the Dead in Natalia Sylvester’s Everyone Knows You Go Home.
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