With a single broadcast in 2011, the ETA Basque separatist group abandoned its campaign for an independent Basque homeland, ending more than 50 years of armed conflict with the Spanish government. Its legacy—wounded families and broken communities—is the heart of Aramburu’s magnificent novel, his fi... Continue reading »

At the start of this exceptional psychological thriller from Swanson (All the Beautiful Lies), bipolar Hen “Henrietta” Mazur and her husband, Lloyd Harding, have dinner one night at the suburban Boston home of neighbors Mira and Matt Dolamore, with whom they’ve recently bonded over their mu... Continue reading »

Child’s rousing debut features striking prose and a well-imagined reality that showcases the author’s careful attention to the attractions and downfalls of technology. Passive Freya has lived for eight years without closure since the disappearance of her foster sister, Ruby. This is especially stran... Continue reading »

Love and self-esteem are as tangled as the sheets in this sensual masterpiece set in New Orleans. NOLA is known for spicy food, lively music, and vibrant colors; it’s the perfect place for engineer Avery Barrows to unleash her inner wild child for a few days. Tired of being judged—and insulted—about... Continue reading »

This masterful continuation of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World saga breathes new life into Scott Free, aka brilliant escape artist Mister Miracle. The book opens with his attempted suicide, and it’s clear that a history of struggle has made its mark on Scott. While he recovers with help from his beloved w... Continue reading »

Multi-genre writer Samuels (Symphony for Human Transport) brings contemporary experimental writing into dialogue with a modernist literary inheritance in this daring collection. She frequently pays homage to her literary predecessors through appropriation, deriving titles for these finely c... Continue reading »

Investigative journalist Ratliff, the coauthor of Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World, makes the most of the stranger-than-fiction story of Paul Le Roux (aka the Mastermind), who was “a multiple murderer, a prodigious global drug and arms trafficker, a solicitor o... Continue reading »

The rise and fall of the transatlantic puritanism is told through political, theological, and personal conflict in this exceptional history from Univ. of Georgia history professor Winship (Godly Republicanism). Spanning from the 1540s to the 1690s, Winship’s overview covers extensive physic... Continue reading »

In this wordless book originally published in the Netherlands, a monkey father picks up his child in a zippy-looking banana motorcycle and promptly gets caught in traffic. Rather than pout, the little monkey scampers out of the sidecar and into a series of adventures on the fanciful, Richard Scarry–... Continue reading »