In David Ewald’s riveting science fiction caper "The Thief of That", an anxiety-ridden aspiring novelist is given the chance to travel backward in time. At thirty, underemployed Ravel worries that the opportunities he deserved all... Read More

Tackling the complex issue of climate change, Ani Dasgupta’s "The New Global Possible" offers hopeful solutions. The book’s optimistic introduction sets the stage for six fact-packed chapters documenting the climate crisis.... Read More

David Haynes’s complex short story collection Martha’s Daughter is about the everyday situations and relationships of working-class Black Americans. Set in the metropolitan flatlands of Missouri, the stories are imbued with the... Read More

Imaginative illustrations evoke the gamut of human emotions in this picture book about understanding and expressing feelings. Apt nature metaphors make the complex topic of emotions more digestible; children can borrow the language... Read More

The life and career of a prominent business and political figure is depicted in the graphic biography Elon Musk: American Oligarch. Elon Musk was born in South Africa, where his father and mother, Errol and Maye, had a relationship... Read More

One of Europe’s most visited centers is illuminated in Cynthia Paces’s erudite history book "Prague". Prague, Franz Kafka’s birthplace, has been called “the mistress of all Bohemia.” Here, this riverside site of political... Read More

Challenging the popular conception that asteroid impacts caused the extinction of dinosaurs, "The Last Extinction" is Gerta Keller’s reflection on one of the nastiest controversies in the modern history of the earth sciences. Equal... Read More

A surreal neon dream, this picture book is an ode to the sea, to connection, and to weathering the storm. Neon pinks, yellows, greens, and blues leap out from dark backdrops, depicting the lighthouse keeper’s ever-growing beard of... Read More