In Billy O’Callaghan’s haunting historical novel "The Paper Man", decades-old wartime secrets are revealed. Rebekah died of tuberculosis when her son, Jack, was a boy; the identity of Jack’s father was never disclosed. In Ireland... Read More

Amy Rose shares her experiences with growing up in a cult in her graphic memoir "Occulted". In 1997, at the age of nine, Amy Rose saw the Hale-Bopp comet in the sky. It corresponded with a tragedy: the members of the nearby Heaven’s... Read More

The climate crisis is a global problem, with every individual playing a role: Nikolaj Schultz confronts this conundrum in his lovely, essay-length book "Land Sickness". In beautiful prose that makes everyday moments seem profound,... Read More

In Ada Zhang’s short story collection "The Sorrows of Others", people of all ages confront personal and cultural losses. Throughout the book, Chinese and Chinese American people face an age-old problem: loneliness in the company of... Read More

Despite being known as the home of sushi and ramen, Japan has a long history of vegetable-forward dishes, and Nancy Singleton Hachisu’s Japan: The Vegetarian Cookbook is a beautiful celebration of its vegetarian cooking. An American... Read More

Mexican poet Isabel Zapata probes the enduring mysteries of pregnancy and birth in "In Vitro", a memoir in fragments that travels from fertility treatment through to the early weeks of pandemic-time motherhood. “I want to shatter the... Read More

A bank robbery gone wrong ends in death in "24 Hours with Gaspar", Sabda Armandio’s engaging, happenstance-led thriller. Gaspar is frivolous and aloof, convinced that he’s gifted with the ability to end up in the right place at the... Read More

The stories of Scott Gloden’s collection "The Great American Everything" explore family relationships and social problems. Anxious parents drill their five-year-old daughter on how to handle emergencies with frightening results. A... Read More