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

Linda Yael Schiller’s spiritual guide "Ancestral Dreaming" takes a fresh approach to healing inherited wounds and trauma. Drawing on the science of epigenetics to support its thesis, the book asserts that unhealed wounds and unresolved... Read More

Giles Tremlett’s biography of Francisco Franco traces his fast rise through Spain’s military to take lasting totalitarian control of the nation. Focusing on a span from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until Franco’s death... Read More

Kayli Scholz’s visceral Southern Gothic novel "Yeehaw Junction" channels rural decay with dark intensity. Set in the desolate margins of rural Florida, where fractured families and neglected crossroads frame a grim descent into... Read More

Mireille Best’s multifaceted novel "Hymn to Moray Eels" is about queer attraction, social expectations, and the intricacies of women’s friendships in 1950s France. Adolescence made sixteen-year-old Mila feel exposed and vulnerable.... Read More

This warm story in which friendship has a vivifying effect begins on an icy day, when a lonely wolf happens upon a red teddy bear in the snow. It feels like kismet: he’s in want of a friend. Soon, he and the bear are climbing trees,... Read More

Former adversaries have one week to undo a queen’s vicious decree in "Seven Deadly Thorns", Amber Hamilton’s scintillating enemies-to-lovers romantasy novel. What remains of the kingdom of Aragoa is confined to its castle and... Read More

British suffragettes fight for women’s equality in Brigitte Dale’s gripping historical novel "The Good Daughters". In 1912, after compromising her “virtue” in secret, Charlotte heads to Cambridge to study at England’s first... Read More