Immigrant Andrea Pons’s vibrant cookbook "Mamacita" gathers the dishes that helped her to maintain a strong sense of culture while she was away from her first home. Noting that Mexican life “revolves around the next meal,” Pons’s... Read More

Stephanie Feldman’s novel "Saturnalia" is a twisted, ethereal dispatch from a climate change point of no return. Nina was born in a row house in Philadelphia, in a time of submerged coastal cities and tornadoes tearing through towns.... Read More

Erica McKeen’s "Tear" is a hair-raising horror novel in which patriarchal dismissals of capable women fester across generations. During the long winter of her senior year of college, in the lone basement room of a nondescript rental... Read More

Cary Fagan’s "The Animals" is a gentle burlesque in which bureaucratic whims alter the downward trajectory of a nondescript, struggling tourist town. After the brief defiance of a semester spent studying architecture, Dorn succumbed to... Read More

A Jewish circus artist’s daring spirit sees her through World War II in Kathy Kacer’s latest Holocaust Remembrance novel, "Hidden on the High Wire". Irene is a fifth-generation performer with her family’s Lorch Circus. She thrills... Read More

"Manolo Valdés In Glass" is a stunning coffee table compendium of the artist’s latest sculptures, made using molten glass. Preceded by informative notes on the history of glass artistry that place its own works in wider context, this... Read More

Two children dine with mermaids, swashbuckle with pirates, and ride on the shoulders of a giant in this beautiful tale about the transportive power of reading. The dreamlike illustrations use a broad palette of bright colors and wispy... Read More

Now with stunning new illustrations, this classic picture book centers on a circus clown who’s tired of being “the funniest.” He learns a word that everyone should be brave enough to wield: “no.” And once he lets his “no”... Read More