Megan Howell’s "Softie" is a series of thirteen short stories which plumb the harrowing struggles and dark corners of womanhood and girlhood as “all hell breaks loose” with regularity. Firm and unflinching, the stories navigate... Read More

In a compelling, conversational style that brings together two unlikely subjects, David Ladensohn’s book explores fly fishing alongside the life and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci. The book follows da Vinci’s life with admiration,... Read More

Amedeo Feniello’s cutthroat book "Naples 1343" reconstructs life and crime in Neapolitan history. Personal and inviting, with language that trades between academic and direct, this is a book built on the idea that the past reverberates... Read More

Formidable wives contend with persecution and past treacheries in Jill Hammer’s intricate fantasy novel "The Moonstone Covenant", set in a cosmopolitan principality. Moonstone is a place marked by simmering religious and cultural... Read More

The life and work of a movie star and fashion icon are recounted in Michele Botton’s graphic biography "Audrey Hepburn". Hepburn was known for her films and sense of style, but the book reveals that there was much more to her.... Read More

In Tom Pyun’s biting novel "Something Close to Nothing", two exes learn to accept the imperfect but wonderful world as it is. Wynn and Jared seemed to have it all: a nice house, a successful long-term relationship, and, thanks to a... Read More

Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

Larry Carlat’s "A Space in the Heart" is a sensitive guidebook for grieving parents. Holding space for unspeakable grief, Carlat, who lost a son to suicide, draws on lived experience in this guide for fellow grieving parents,... Read More