Zora Neale Hurston’s familiarity with the political and spiritual workings of the Roman Empire makes The Life of Herod the Great a thought-provoking read, particularly in her depiction of Herod’s visits to Cleopatra, Marc Antony and Caesar.
Nuanced, hopeful and insightful, Ava Robinson’s Definitely Better Now is an endearing portrayal of a young woman redefining herself after one year of sobriety.
In Bluebird Day, Megan Tady delivers a cozy tale with layers as numerous as midseason snowpack, delving into the psyches of mother and daughter competitive skiers Claudine and Wylie.
We can never resist a book within a book, and Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, She Who Knows) has pulled one off brilliantly here: Though Death of the Author begins as the near-future story of a Nigerian American writer’s rise to fame, embedded within it is a sci-fi tale about a robot and AI-ruled Earth. This clever expansion beyond her usual hard sci-fi and fantasy will surely introduce the highly lauded Africanfuturist author to legions of new fans.
Wistful and wise, Jill McCorkle’s fifth collection is the work of a writer at the top of her game.
Claire Keegan’s writing is spare but never austere, and the hour spent in Foster’s quiet world will change you.
Julia Armfield leans in to science fiction and the supernatural in stories that examine urban life and women’s experiences.
It’s truly a wonder that Denis Johnson’s engrossing Train Dreams can fit so much vibrancy within so few pages.
Catherine Airey excavates the intertwining stories of three generations of Irish American women in Confessions, a firecracker of a debut novel that never gives up any slack.
Karissa Chen’s Homeseeking is both a love story and a family story, capturing the ever-present yearning for “people, people who shared the same ghosts as you, of folks long gone, places long disappeared.”
In addition to whiplash-inducing twists, Kate Fagan’s The Three Lives of Cate Kay also packs an emotional punch, and readers will find that Cate’s story is as relatable as it is riveting.
In his seventh collection, The Invention of the Darling, poet Li-Young Lee balances the grandest revelations of the universe with the gentle touch of personal memory.
In his seventh collection, The Invention of the Darling, poet Li-Young Lee balances the grandest revelations of the universe with the gentle touch of personal memory.
Cass Donish’s Your Dazzling Death is an openhearted and devastating collection—proof that love stories do not end, but rather go on changing, even through death.
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