David Gessner’s engaging nature book "The Book of Flaco" is about an escaped owl and humanity’s impact on wild animals. Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, lived in Central Park Zoo for thirteen years. In February 2023, people with... Read More

The Book Lover’s Almanac is a delightful daily compendium of literary facts and anecdotes. The monthly sections open with a rundown of prominent authors’ births and deaths and the dates when famous works were first issued or... Read More

Elegiac in tone, Jessica Kirkness’s "The House with All the Lights On" is a touching family memoir in which language and technology enable connections with deaf grandparents. Kirkness grew up next door to her grandparents, immigrants... Read More

In Anita Felicelli’s stunning short story collection "How We Know Our Time Travelers", technology and the supernatural are rival routes to understanding time, loss, and memory. These speculative stories are set in California in the... Read More

Cats & Us is a charming collection of mini-essays highlighting human-pet interactions over time and across cultural contexts. Its several-page spreads consider how felines relate to certain subgroups of people, including children,... Read More

For the central trio in Jenny Haysom’s astute and appealing novel "Keep", held and released secrets and possessions threaten to disrupt the course of life. Harriet, a poet in her eighties, is slipping into dementia; ““if this last... Read More

Eve Driver and Tom Osborn’s spirited, conversational book What We Can’t Burn concerns how activism and entrepreneurship might interact in the struggle to mitigate the climate crisis. Driver and Osborn met as Harvard classmates. They... Read More

Dianna E. Anderson’s "Body Phobia" is a convincing personal and philosophical exposé of how a culture that fears bodily differences harms vulnerable people. Anderson, who is nonbinary, trans, and queer, grew up in an evangelical... Read More