Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More

In Rachael MeyersJones’s stirring novel "King Coyote", a city boy navigates the rugged Vermont wilderness and the even more treacherous landscape of his family’s dissolution. Twelve-year-old King is a “soup-brained zombie” of the... Read More

Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel "Kill Dick" parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of... Read More

In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel "Mount Verity", a childhood tragedy alters the trajectory of an artist’s life. On Easter Eve in 1989, Hannah’s older brother Erik disappears during a midnight trip to a mountain with a mythic... Read More

Rockefeller Center archivist Christine Roussel’s engrossing history book elucidates the stories of the men surrounding an iconic image. During the Great Depression, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., embarked on the construction of Rockefeller... Read More

In Anna Rosner’s bittersweet novel "Last Year with Maddy", a childhood friendship is tested by family challenges. Twelve-year-old Aviva finds it difficult to keep friends other than Maddy. The girls are as close as sisters—best... Read More

With an easygoing style, Joseph Piercy recommends one hundred notable works of world literature through the medicinal lens of bibliotherapy. As a mental health practice, bibliotherapy centralizes writing and literature as a means to help... Read More

The discovery of an alien communication changes a family’s trajectory in Alexandra Oliva’s rich speculative novel "The Radiant Dark". When scientists announce that a repeating light pattern is a message from extraterrestrials, Carol... Read More