A boy is turned into a deer in Simon Bournel-Bosson’s surreal graphic novel "Trumpets of Death". Amid his parents’ marital troubles, Antoine is sent to stay with his paternal grandparents. His grandfather Gilbert is an imposing,... Read More

Karen J. Johnson’s eye-opening history book is about the complicity of American churches in systemic inequality. Tracing the long history of religious support for segregation, the book asserts that white Christians have used biased... Read More

Enthralling and surreal, An Yu’s dystopian novel "Sunbirth" reconsiders approaches to the end of the world. Though the citizens of Five Poems Lake have had twelve years to adjust to the incremental loss of the sun, they still feel... Read More

In Eden’s Clock, Norman Lock’s concluding stand-alone volume of The American Novels series, a Civil War veteran and clocksmith travels to San Francisco, arriving on the evening before the city’s massive 1906 earthquake. In 1905,... Read More

In Giulia Caminito’s mesmerizing novel The Lake’s Water is Never Sweet, an Italian girl navigates private treacheries and injustices. Gaia grows up in poverty, learning to be tough in a house whose concrete courtyard is her only... Read More

A murdered girl’s essence persists, her body resisting deterioration and inspiring whispers of miracles, in Josephine Rowe’s radiant novel "Little World". The body of a child, a possible saint-to-be, arrives in the Australian desert,... Read More

Skewering news media for acts of brazen laziness and inhumane “neutrality,” Phoebe Greenwood’s bawdy satirical novel "Vulture" addresses the Israel-Palestine conflict from the protected sidelines. Sara, an English reporter in Gaza,... Read More

Generations of women face the consequences of their dark bargains in Irene Solà’s wickedly sumptuous novel "I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness". In a prewar period of privation, Joana decides not to die hungry and alone.... Read More