Across more than a century, three women connected by a narrative persist beyond the brokenness of their worlds in "A Line You Have Traced", Roisin Dunnett’s stunning speculative novel. At the end of World War I, brilliant Bea assists... Read More
Jessica Zucker’s self-help book "Normalize It" demonstrates that storytelling is the way to break the cycles of silence, stigma, and shame that keep women from disclosing difficult episodes in their lives. Zucker shares composite case... Read More
Joined together, the grumbles of ill-appreciated and misunderstood knickknacks become cacophonous in Elisabeth Saake’s cheeky, delightful gift book "Tchotchkes and Their F*cked-Up Thoughts". Beware your baubles—they’re not content... Read More
"20 Amici, 40 Ricette" is American entrepreneur John Bersani’s inviting culinary guide to Italy’s Chianti region. On his first visit to Tuscany, Bersani was seduced by its landscape, art, people, and food. He later bought a home in... Read More
Ursula Pike’s travel memoir "An Indian Among Los Indígenas" covers her two transformative, eye-opening years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, which fulfilled her desire to “see the world, learn some skills, and help people”... Read More
Familiar yet otherworldly, Errick Nunnally’s novel "The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile" follows a Black boy growing up in 1970s Boston. Approaching his teenage years, Sean listens to his mother Sojourner’s stories about... Read More
Daniel Tammet’s "Nine Minds" is a biographical mosaic of neurodivergence built of stories of individuals whose struggles and achievements defy the clichés surrounding autism. The book presents autism not as a “disorder” but as a... Read More
A girl competes in an intergalactic cooking contest in Nicolas Wouters’s graphic novel "Magda, Intergalactic Chef". Magda is hesitant about participating in her planet’s cooking tournament but does so to appease her family. Her... Read More