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The Mighty Red

Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and preternaturally lucky football player, asks...

By Shannon Carlin

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

In her debut memoir, best-selling cookbook author and food TV icon Ina Garten admits she has a “low threshold for boredom.” This, she writes, has made her more than willing to take wild risks “just...

By Shannon Carlin

The Wide Wide Sea

With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides reckons with the ambitions and intentions of Captain...

By Shannon Carlin

Health and Safety

New Yorker staffer Emily Witt’s debut memoir Health and Safety offers a sardonic look at her journey to try as many psychedelic drugs as possible. In 2013, after spending a few years on a prescribed...

By Shannon Carlin

Slaveroad

John Edgar Wideman’s genre-bending autobiography chronicles not only his life, but also those of African men and women who made their way to the U.S. through the trans–Atlantic slave trade. A poignant mix of memoir,...

By Shannon Carlin

My Friends

Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar’s third novel, My Friends, begins with a tender yet tense goodbye between two middle-aged friends, one of whom is compelled to search their past in order to understand how they...

By Shannon Carlin

The Eyes Are the Best Part

Monika Kim’s inventive debut novel, The Eyes Are the Best Part, begins with teenage protagonist Ji-won’s well-manicured mom expertly plucking the eye from her fish at dinner and swallowing it with great aplomb. In their...

By Shannon Carlin

Your Utopia

Your Utopia, Bora Chung’s 2021 collection of short stories, uses horror and humor to tackle the fate of humanity. Eight inventive tales, newly translated from the original Korean by Anton Hur, offer an absurd look...

By Shannon Carlin

Lessons for Survival

Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” opens with Emily Raboteau writing that her essay collection is a quilt “pieced together out of love by a parent who wants her children to inherit a world...

By Shannon Carlin

The Light Eaters

Are plants intelligent? It’s the complex and surprisingly controversial question at the heart of journalist Zoë Schlanger’s revelatory debut, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life...

By Shannon Carlin

Consent

In 1970, at the age of 17, Jill Ciment began a relationship with painter Arnold Mesches, a married father of two who was 30 years her senior. In her 1996 memoir, Half a Life, she...

By Shannon Carlin

The Book of Love

Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link’s debut novel, The Book of Love, is a fantasy that tackles sibling rivalry, complicated teen friendships, and transcendent love. Nearly a year after high schoolers Laura, Daniel, and Mo die...

By Shannon Carlin

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel’s bold debut novel, Headshot, takes readers inside a run-down boxing ring in Reno, Nev., where eight young women compete for the Daughters of America Cup. Each chapter focuses on an individual fight taking...

By Shannon Carlin

Fi

Six years ago, Alexander Fuller’s 21-year-old son died in his sleep. With her moving fifth memoir, Fi: A Memoir of My Son—named in honor of her late child, whose nickname was Fi—the author sets out...

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Undue Burden

With Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America, journalist Shefali Luthra paints a portrait of reproductive rights following the fall of Roe v. Wade. After the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to...

By Shannon Carlin

The Great Divide

Cristina Henríquez’s fourth novel, The Great Divide, is a historical epic set in Panama amid the construction of the famous canal and the deadly mosquito-borne disease that nearly derailed its completion. The sweeping tale takes...

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