California was in the death grip of a drought when endurance athlete Heather “Anish” Anderson set out to hike the 2,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail faster than any other hiker ever had. To do so, she would have to walk at least forty... Read More

Decades after twentieth-century pharmaceuticals, urbanization, and television put traveling medicine shows out of business, Stephanie Allen’s "Tonic and Balm" resurrects one worthy of giving prescription drugs, industrialization, and... Read More

Patterned after the music of Schubert and described as a winterreise (German for “winter journey”), Sarah Léon’s "Wanderer" is a story all about unspoken feelings. Constructed around the relationship between two characters, the... Read More

"Saving Nova" is a character-driven science-fiction adventure. Luis Martinez’s engaging postapocalyptic novel "Saving Nova" kickstarts a new series with fascinating characters. Over a century after a nuclear war all but wiped out... Read More

Maryam Mafi’s luminous translation brings the Persian poet Rumi’s distinctive and timeless Sufi lessons to a new audience, transforming the original verses into prose that conveys the vibrancy of the medieval setting while also... Read More

Hwang Jungeun’s I’ll Go On brings to vibrant life one of the most vexing human dilemmas: how does a person go on after devastating loss? Sisters Sora and Nana are haunted by their father’s gruesome death and their mother’s... Read More

Ethereal and surreal, Tom Chambers’s photomontages “tell unfinished stories” about childhoods in flux, gasping ecologies, and unfinished fantasies. From his childhood encounters with the Wyeths and a tour in Vietnam, Chambers moved... Read More

“I am blessed with a multispecies family,” Sy Montgomery writes in "How to Be a Good Creature", her memoir of life as an animal lover: “a family made not from genes, not from blood, but from love.” Following her surprise 2015... Read More