Ana Paula Pacheco’s "Pandora" is a startling, bold allegorical novella about pandemic-era hazards to women. COVID-19 upends literature professor Ana’s life. Her classes and her friendship with Alice, with whom she plans a pornography... Read More

Leah Altman’s bold memoir-in-essays is about reclaiming her Native American identity after a transracial adoption and traumatic upbringing. Following the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the book reports, up to 35% of Native American... Read More

A percipient girl narrates her tumultuous life experiences in "Carnaval Fever", Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s lyrical, pulsing novel. In the 1990s, in Ecuador’s Afro-Ecuadorian neighborhood of Esmeraldas, Ainhoa lives at her grandmother’s... Read More

About strengthening the US’s social foundations and expanding opportunities for innovation and growth, "Strong Floor, No Ceiling" is an ambitious and enthusiastic centrist political text. Oliver B. Libby’s centrist political... Read More

Jewel tone, whimsical illustrations evocative of children’s classics vivify this lovely, surreal introduction to the ballet. In it, two children slip through a hedge to witness bunny rabbits pirouetting and pliéing their ways across... Read More

With its men off to war, a Highland community is protected by witches in Shona Kinsella’s propulsive historical novel "Daughters of Nicnevin", set during the time of the Jacobite rising. Mairead, a lonely witch, wanders Scotland alone... Read More

An adorable puppy goes on a whirlwind holiday adventure through Europe, ferried by the magical wave of his tail, in this endearing, culturally edifying series entry. With five stops, including in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland,... Read More

Kate Eichhorn’s "School Yearbook" is an illuminating study of the meanings and uses of yearbooks—“semipublic documents” with surprising cultural and political value. The Yale Banner, circa 1841, is widely considered the first... Read More