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Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen is a collection of poetic courage. Nguyen’s first book, Ghost Of—a 2018 National Book Award finalist—explored her family’s silence after her brother’s suicide, utilizing photographs that her brother cut...

By Rebecca Schneid

The Bookshop

The Bookshop is author and history professor Evan Friss’ big-hearted ode to the local bookstore. These shops—the term, Friss explains, most indie booksellers prefer over “store,” believing it sounds less commercial—provide more than just books....

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You Glow in the Dark

You Glow in the Dark, Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi’s English-language debut, is a terrifying trip through a dystopian Latin America where past, present, and future collide. These seven stories, newly translated from Spanish by Chris...

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Splinters

Splinters centers on two defining moments in essayist Leslie Jamison’s life that happened to coincide: the birth of her daughter and her separation from her husband. The book keeps Jamison’s ex at a respectful but...

By Eliana Dockterman

James

With his best-selling 24th novel, Percival Everett offers an audacious reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Huck’s enslaved friend Jim—who, as the book’s title suggests, prefers to...

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Private Equity

Fresh off a breakup and in search of a job that would finance creative writing classes, Carrie Sun took a position as the personal assistant to a billionaire hedge-fund founder—though she wasn’t allowed to call...

By Eliana Dockterman

The Bright Sword

Arthurian legends have been passed down for centuries. There would seem to be little left to mine from the story of the king who pulled a sword from a stone. Yet The Magicians author and...

By Eliana Dockterman

Absolution

The surprise fourth installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach ecological-horror trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) is both a prequel to these works and a standalone story. Set 20 years before the original books, Absolution focuses...

By Eliana Dockterman

There's Always This Year

On the surface, Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest book, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, is, yes, about basketball. But, as with most of Abdurraqib’s writing, it’s also about so much more. In this sprawling...

By Rachel Sonis

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Xochitl Gonzalez pulls no punches against the art world in her latest propulsive novel, Anita de Monte Laughs Last. In the follow-up to her best-selling 2022 debut, Olga Dies Dreaming, Gonzalez explores how legacy gets...

By Rachel Sonis

Sidetracks

A legend in Chinese poetry and contemporary writing, Bei Dao (the pen name for Zhao Zhenkai) returns to poetry after almost 15 years with Sidetracks, translated by Jeffrey Yang. The book-length poem is a culmination...

By Rebecca Schneid

Fire Exit

Set on and around the Penobscot Reservation in Maine, Morgan Talty’s debut novel follows Charles Lamosway, a man grappling with a huge secret. For the last 20 years, he has watched his daughter Elizabeth grow...

By Rachel Sonis

The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones—an enthralling, debut memoir by Zara Chowdhary—chronicles the persistent, heart-wrenching, multigenerational violence against Muslim communities in India. The story begins when a 2002 train fire killed Hindu passengers in Godhra, inciting backlash against...

By Rachel Sonis

Soldiers and Kings

In Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, 2017 MacArthur fellow and anthropologist Jason de León sets out on a journey to humanize smugglers, or coyotes, as they are called...

By Rachel Sonis

Grief Is for People

In 2019, Sloane Crosley’s home was burglarized. On a nondescript afternoon, a robber broke into her New York City apartment and stole all her jewelry—41 pieces, including her grandmother’s vivid green cocktail ring. A month...

By Meg Zukin

Bluff

In “anti poetica,” the opening poem of Bluff by Danez Smith, they announce there is “no poem to free you.” Smith asks: How can one read poetry at a time like this? When our world...

By Rebecca Schneid
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