Part maternal and filial lament, part horror story, Kirsten Kaschock’s eerie, enrapturing novel follows a biological experiment gone wrong. In a Pennsylvania barn, grief-driven Agnes tinkers with crow DNA, hoping to nurture a specimen... Read More

Two adorable gnomes head off for a seaside adventure in this joyous picture book that models appreciation and care for nature. Little Gnouf is so excited to see the ocean that he spends days reading about it before he and Mirabelle... Read More

Nadine Takvorian’s devastating and important graphic memoir "Armaveni" unpacks the generational traumas left by the Armenian genocide. A teenager in 2001, Nadine is desperate to learn about her family’s time in the Ottoman Empire.... Read More

A marginalized woman is sent into a black hole for the good of her community in Balsam Karam’s extraordinary speculative novel "Event Horizon". Milde was eight years old when her tropical nation declared innumerable women and children... Read More

Both breathtaking and intimate, Kiliii Yuyan’s powerful photojournalism anthology "Guardians of Life" captures Indigenous-led efforts to reconnect people and the planet through traditional cultural practices. Central is the concept of... Read More

Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More

In Rachael MeyersJones’s stirring novel "King Coyote", a city boy navigates the rugged Vermont wilderness and the even more treacherous landscape of his family’s dissolution. Twelve-year-old King is a “soup-brained zombie” of the... Read More

Rockefeller Center archivist Christine Roussel’s engrossing history book elucidates the stories of the men surrounding an iconic image. During the Great Depression, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., embarked on the construction of Rockefeller... Read More