Tita Rosie's restaurant is in trouble and not just the financial kind. When a hostile restaurant critic suddenly dies face first in a comforting bowl of ginataang bilo-bilo, a Filipino dessert, suspicion falls on the kitchen. Lila Macapagal was…
Environmental journalist Nijhuis presents a history of the conservation movement which highlights pioneers of different ecological concepts from the time of Linnaeus in the 18th century to the present day. Refreshingly, optimism infuses each…
Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were conductors on the Underground Railroad. But not the same one you learned about in school. This Underground Railroad exists in a world where magic is real, and Hetty and Benjy are some of the best magical…
In this heartbreaking memoir, French writer Springora chronicles a period of her life when, at the age of fourteen, she was victimized by a fifty-year-old esteemed literary figure, who was a not-so-secret serial sexual abuser of children. With great…
Heiny's Early Morning Riser is the hilarious and tender story of Jane, a second-grade teacher, and Duncan, a decidedly unambitious woodworker who only really succeeds at racking up girlfriends. Set perfectly in Boyne City, Michigan from 2002 to…
In his latest, journalist O'Keefe (Say Nothing) sets out to reveal how much the Sackler family, who owned Purdue Pharma, the company that made OxyContin and aggressively marketed the drug as a safe, nonaddictive pain medication, knew about its…
In 8 unflinching essays, Febos recounts her violent, traumatic transition from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to young adulthood. At the age of ten, she describes a sudden and pervasive awareness of her body as a source of shame,…
One of the preeminent music writers of his generation, Abdurraqib focuses on the rich legacy of Black American performance in his latest book which stretches to encompass the work of comedians, dancers, magicians and film and TV performers, though…
Korelitz's devilishly-plotted literary thriller is a page turner that might keep you up late past your bedtime, curious to find out what happens next. When writing professor Jacob Finch Bonner finds out that a student who attended a summer MFA…
Rylan Grace wakes up with no memory of who he is or what he's supposed to be doing. He quickly realizes that he is on a spaceship and that his other two crewmates didn't survive the journey. The problem is that they were sent here as a last-ditch…
Author Joan Silber is quietly one of the finest practitioners of fiction around. She writes novels and story collections structured like nautilus shells, with each subsequent chapter shifting to a new character's point of view, gradually circling…
In this beautifully written debut novel, Nguyen tells the journey of a refugee family who flees Vietnam and settles in the United States. Along the way, they tragically get separated from each other, with the father staying behind and the mother,…
