In Nathacha Appanah’s luminous novel "The Sky above the Roof", a teenager’s impulsive, confused actions lead to his imprisonment. Formidable, intense Phoenix was forced to be a child entertainer. Doll-like, she sang for adoring... Read More

A child with outsized ambitions imagines what he would do if given the powerful position of the president. There are bestowals of freedom on animals and children, and grumpy people are relegated to towns far, far away. The rules are... Read More

A secret between a husband and a wife threatens their existence in Marijke Schermer’s novel "Breakwater". Bruch is in love with Emilia. Everything about her is right. But without explanation, Emilia stops taking his calls. Her brother... Read More

"Patterns of Orbit" is Chloe N. Clark’s inimitable collection of short stories and flash fiction, in which mysterious events abound. Herein, lakeside waves churn and tear up docks; a food scientist creates fruit that tastes of another... Read More

Max Humphrey’s "Lodge" is a photographic guide to ten historic buildings within the west and southwest of the US’s National Park Service. After the establishment of the first national parks in the late nineteenth century, travelers... Read More

Hayley Gold’s beautiful graphic memoir "Nervosa" covers the artist’s life through her eating disorder. When Gold was ten, she went to get ice cream with her father while he ranted about her mother. Her cholesterol was high, some... Read More

With illustrations that evoke animated films, this picture book encourages children to dance to the beat of their own drums. Lady B. Marie, known as Jitterbug, is a ladybug who lives and breathes rock ‘n’ roll; the other... Read More

Amused, sometimes annoyed, and always evolving, the land beneath an English village observes the habits of the generations who settle it in Tom Cox’s irresistible novel "Villager". The land beneath Underhill has seen it all: pagan... Read More