Pastry chef Benoît Castel’s inviting cookbook "The Seasonal Pantry" combines organic garden produce with a sustainable perspective. Castel’s garden-to-table ethos involves seasonal eating and capturing the bounty of harvests by... Read More

Rod Phillips’s Cats: A History is an exhaustive and engrossing survey of the millennia-long relationship between cats and people. Humans first kept cats to protect grain stores from rodents, Phillips notes, while ancient Egyptians... Read More

A playful collection, Maria Giesbrecht’s "A Little Feral" invokes her religious background. Born in Mexico and of Mennonite ancestry, Giesbrecht found release in writing: “A safe / rebellion. A poem. / It’s the way I have... Read More

G. G. Silverman’s dark, inventive story collection adapts horror and fairy-tale tropes to explore motherhood and the repercussions of misogynistic violence. Women’s bodies herein are imperiled by sadistic men and acts of... Read More

"La Copine" is an enticing cookbook that captures the innovative menu and desert setting of Claire Wadsworth and Nikki Hill’s California restaurant. While running a catering business in Los Angeles, partners Wadsworth and Hill attended... Read More

The heartfelt essays and poems in "Queer and Muslim" defend religion’s compatibility with queerness. Religion can be a means of liberation rather than oppression, said Imam Muhsin Hendricks, shot dead in South Africa in 2025.... Read More

Monika Fagerholm’s hard-hitting experimental novel is about the aftereffects of gang rape. During a spring break party, Nathan and three other teenage boys restrained their classmate, Sascha, in the basement and raped her. A decade... Read More

Laura B. McGrath’s "Middlemen" is a thorough, diverting investigation of the role literary agents play in the creation of book markets and reader tastes. “No figure has been more significant, and yet more invisible, in American... Read More