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Nadia Owusu's Earthquake of a Memoir
A motif of earthquakes threads through the blistering new book 'Aftershocks' as the author confronts ideas of home, identity, and the ripple effects of trauma.
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Sarah Penner Tells a Tale of Poison
The spellbinding debut novel 'The Lost Apothecary' tells the story of a female apothecary serial killer in 18th-century London.
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Doctor Woman Sister Rebel: Janice Nimura's 'The Doctors Blackwell'
Janice Nimura’s captivating nonfiction account tells the story of the 19th-century Blackwell sisters, who changed the face of American medicine.
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James Oseland Takes You Down Mexico Way for a Nosh
The pundit asks readers to fall in love with the culture, history, and cuisine of Mexico City in the first entry in his World Food book series.
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The Hero of 'Black Buck' Is No Willy Loman
In Mateo Askaripour’s debut novel, a young Black Starbucks barista becomes a star salesman at New York’s hottest tech startup.
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Sigrid Nunez Returns After Her NBA Win
In 'What Are You Going Through,' the follow-up novel to Nunez's National Book Award winner 'The Friend,' the novelist looks at friendship and life near the end with her signature mix of gravitas and humor.
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Sue Miller Interrogates 'Monogamy'
A couple’s long idyllic life together comes under scrutiny in the author's latest novel.
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The Poet Laureate and Her Mother
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and former poet laureate Natasha Trethewey’s memoir tells a tragic and inspiring story that shaped her life and work.
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Life, Lust, and Science in Arlene Heyman’s Debut
The novel 'Aritfact' traces the coming of age of an independent woman biologist.
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Francesca Marciano's Italy Is a Wild Kingdom
The Italians of Marchiano's new collection, 'Animal Spirits,' experience love and loss, violence and madness at home and abroad.
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Mikel Jollett Crafts a Heartbreaking Memoir of Staggering Growth
The author, born into the Church of Synanon cult, tells his heart-wrenching story of love and redemption in words and music.
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With 'How to Feed a Dictator,' This Polish Author Shows What's Cooking
Polish author Witold Szablowski’s provocative book looks at ruthless dictators through the stories of their chefs.
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In Her New Novel, Şebnem İşigüzel Finds a Child Prophet
In 'The Girl in the Tree,' an irreverent young narrator appalled by the violence in her city climbs to the top of a tree in Istanbul to live out her days telling stories.
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Lily King Writes a Novel of Budding Artistry
In King’s fifth novel, a young woman determined to have it all faces the challenges of living a creative life.
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A Memoir That Serves as a Playbook for Your 20s
Audacious Brit Dolly Alderton explores a raucous decade of living and loving in her debut, 'Everything I Know About Love.'
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Was the Early U.S. All That Puritanical? A Novelist Investigates.
TaraShea Nesbit’s novel 'Beheld' looks at the dark side of Plymouth Colony.
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Stephanie Wrobel’s 'Darling Rose Gold' Finds a Mother From Hell
A debut novelist adds a twist to the canon of books on Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
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Gabriel Bump's Ballad of a Nowhere Boy
A debut novelist delves into a boy’s life in inner-city Chicago with 'Everywhere You Don’t Belong.'
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Paul Wolfe Writes the Story of JFK's Lover
The author's new novel imagines the “lost” diary of Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK’s murdered paramour.
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Katrine Engberg Brings Danish Noir to Scout Press
An odd-couple detective team investigates a brutal murder in the bestselling Danish author’s literary thriller.
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