About connection with the land, Jason Allen Paisant’s memoir "The Possibility of Tenderness" follows a return home after creating a life and family abroad. Throughout his trip to Coffee Town, Jamaica, Paisant yearns for a more holistic... Read More

In Grace Chan’s incisive speculative novel "Every Version of You", people seek eternal virtual life, hoping to abandon the physical world for good. In the near future, Earth is increasingly uninhabitable. People who can afford to do so... Read More

Linda Segtnan’s haunting true crime book delves into the 1948 murder of a Swedish girl and the intense psychological effects Segtnan experienced while researching the crime. In 2018, Segtnan was working on a project at the National... Read More

A bereaved composer keeps the memory of his late wife alive by unusual means in Anne Sénès’s mesmerizing novel "Double Room". In the late 1990s, Stan receives an offer to compose music for a theatrical production. He travels from... Read More

A literary gyre with a small, religious Louisiana town at its center, "Sister Creatures", Laura Venita Green’s dazzling debut novel, follows the interconnected stories of haunted, hopeful women. Tess, ensconced in a longtime... Read More

Soft illustrations and tender language contrast the sharp poignancy of this picture book about the lingering trauma of war and displacement. Bunny is disturbed by an event at school but isn’t ready to talk about it yet; lying awake, he... Read More

Part manifesto, part guidebook, Rob Hopkins’s "How to Fall in Love with the Future" argues that in order to change the world, people must begin with their imaginations. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, and narrative storytelling,... Read More

Vanessa F. Penney’s magical novel "The Witch of Willow Sound" is about rural prejudice, the wounds of the past, and forgiveness. Pulled from her perambulatory routines by an emergency phone call from her mother, Phaedra travels to... Read More