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How to End a Love Story

Screenwriter and director Yulin Kuang’s debut novel, How to End a Love Story, is a sorrowful yet fiery romance about learning to forgive. Thirteen years after losing her younger sister, Helen Zhang is still trying...

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A Complicated Passion

With A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, the first major biography of Agnès Varda, film critic Carrie Rickey offers a fascinating deep dive into the illustrious life and career of the...

By Shannon Carlin

Survival Is a Promise

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde is what scholar and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs likes to call a “quantum biography.” To understand Audre Lorde’s life and lasting legacy, the author chose...

By Shannon Carlin

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe’s witty and endearing fourth novel (soon to be an Apple TV+ series) begins with Margo, a bright college freshman, discovering she is pregnant with her former English professor’s baby. Her decision to keep...

By Shannon Carlin

There Is No Ethan

No one likes to think of themself as someone who can be easily fooled. And that’s especially true of Anna Akbari, a sociologist and former New York University professor who met a man who called...

By Kelly Conniff

Ghostroots

'Pemi Aguda’s debut, a 2024 National Book Award finalist, is an unsettling short story collection set in a mythical version of the author’s homeland of Lagos, Nigeria. The 12 gothic tales spotlight characters, often mothers...

By Shannon Carlin

Whiskey Tender

Deborah Jackson Taffa’s debut memoir, Whiskey Tender, looks at her coming of age as a member of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe in 1980s New Mexico. Taffa was raised by a mother...

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Traveling

With Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, NPR music critic Ann Powers takes readers on an introspective journey through the life and career of the legendary artist, assessing the victories and contradictions that make...

By Shannon Carlin

Feeding Ghosts

Author and artist Tessa Hulls’ debut graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, is a lush and moving portrait of the women in her family. In 1957, Hulls’ maternal grandmother Sun Yi fled Communist China with the author’s...

By Shannon Carlin

The Book Censor's Library

National Book Award finalist Bothayna Al-Essa’s 2021 novel, The Book Censor's Library, newly translated from the original Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain, is a Kafkaesque satire set in a near future where most...

By Shannon Carlin

Long Island Compromise

In her much-ballyhooed 2019 debut novel Fleishman Is In Trouble, the New York Times’ expert celebrity profiler Taffy Brodesser-Akner told a story based, at least in part, on her life as a journalist and mother....

By Eliana Dockterman

The Lions' Den

Iris Mwanza’s debut novel, The Lions’ Den, is a riveting legal thriller set in the corrupt and homophobic political world of Zambia in the early 1990s. Grace, a defiant rookie lawyer, has finally been assigned...

By Shannon Carlin

Colored Television

Ever since her 1998 debut novel, Caucasia, made her a standout author of her generation, Danzy Senna has been known for interrogating the experiences of mixed-race people like herself. Twenty-six years later, her trenchant, self-aware,...

By Judy Berman

Get the Picture

After tackling the inner workings of the wine business with her first book, Cork Dork, journalist Bianca Bosker returns with an engrossing and often absurd examination of the fine art world. With Get the Picture:...

By Shannon Carlin

Perfume and Pain

Struggling author Astrid Dahl is living in a Los Angeles bungalow, struggling through the throes of her addiction to a cocktail of substances she has deemed the “Patricia Highsmith.” Her love life is in shambles...

By Meg Zukin

I Cannot Control Everything Forever

With unfettered honesty, literature professor Emily C. Bloom details her difficult journey to becoming a mother in her late 30s, which included a chemical pregnancy, a late-term miscarriage, and an abortion. She writes woefully of...

By Shannon Carlin
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