Jane Smiley burrows into the craniums of a menagerie, resulting in a remarkable novel that splits the difference between Charlotte’s Web and Animal Farm.
The stories here are short and strange, the longest no more than a few pages, but each is crammed with life.
Simon Han displays incredible range as a novelist, oscillating between honest, almost tangibly real scenes, opaque dreams and refractive memories.
Make Me Rain is a marvel of scale—global and local, private and political—as Nikki Giovanni invites us into her thoughts and experiences.
For a reader wanting to escape, to fly while grounded, this book is a map that offers surprise and delight.
From local legends to household names like Count Basie, each story shines a spotlight on Black excellence.
In Ed Ceasar’s The Moth and the Mountain, some answers to the mystery of climber Maurice Wilson remain shrouded in the mists of Mt. Everest.
As the ghost of Haley wanders through the pages, it somehow feels as though the dead girl is more alive than anyone else in the book.
Cecily von Ziegesar spins a fast-paced, funny tale of the sometimes confusing but often entertaining ways neighbors relate to one another.
Muriel Spark’s Loitering With Intent trots happily alongside aspiring would-be novelist Fleur Talbot as she breezes through bedraggled postwar London.
Narrators Alison Steadman and Daisy Edgar-Jones alternate chapters to add sass and dimension to Beth O’Leary’s novel.
Gaiman is generally categorized as a speculative fiction writer, but as the 52 selections in The Neil Gaiman Reader confirm, his gifts defy neat classification.
Snider’s colorful panels convey just the right amount of information, seasoned with sly allusions and inside jokes aimed at the avid reader.
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