Reminiscent of the 1920s Gatsby era, with undercover alcohol and the hint of danger, James Ziskin’s "Bombay Monsoon" is a captivating thriller set during a pivotal time in Indian history. Danny Jacobs is a reporter fresh on the beat... Read More
Rebecca Solnit’s "Waking Beauty" is a fantasy fairy tale retelling that blends feminist themes with whimsical musings. What if Sleeping Beauty had a sister? The cursed daughter of the traditional fairy tale, Ida, falls into the... Read More
In Jean Gill’s gripping historical novel "The Ring Breaker", a young man comes of age in the Viking-era Orkney Islands, navigating court intrigue, his own survival, and his confusing feelings about the jarl’s cursed ward. The book... Read More
In "Chasing Plants", botanist Chris Thorogood shares how his lifelong obsession with plants led him to precarious situations in far-flung places to find them, no matter what it took. Thorogood sketched and scribbled his way around the... Read More
The residents of an abandoned apartment complex eke out an outskirts living in Cho Nam-Joo’s dystopian novel "Saha". Thirty years ago, Saha Estates was a bustling apartment community. Then a corporation bought out the nearby town and... Read More
The weight of trauma and secrets brings a family to their breaking point in the connected short stories of Toni Ann Johnson’s "Light Skin Gone to Waste". The Arrington family has high aspirations. Phil, a psychologist, wants to have a... Read More
A psychology enthusiast dives into writings by and about his favorite psychologist in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s literary novel "Case Study". Upon discovering that her sister had been seeing rogue psychologist Collins Braithwaite before... Read More
Amid the shifting desert sands of Lavie Tidhar’s novel "Neom", a melancholy robot searches for something to believe in. Earth has changed since people first took to the stars. In the wake of wars that human beings depended on AI to... Read More