It’s Hard to Be an AnimalRobert Isaacs. Grand Central, $18.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-5387-7328-4
Riffing on Doctor Doolittle, the exciting and hilarious debut from Isaacs follows a 28-year-old New Yorker who suddenly develops the ability to hear what animals are saying. Henry Parsons is on a first date in Central Park with a woman named Molly when he hears a magnolia warbler tell the c... Continue reading »
2084: A Novel of Future WarElliot Ackerman and James Stavridis. Penguin Press, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-48989-5
Novelist Ackerman and former NATO supreme allied commander Stavridis continue to offer chilling global forecasts with their grim yet gripping third geopolitical thriller (after 2054). By 2084, the U.S. and China have fallen from grace on the world stage: civil unrest in the U.S. leading to ... Continue reading »
All Previous InstructionsAda Hoffmann. Tachyon, $18.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-61696-456-6
Kelli Reynolds, the autistic heroine of this thrilling, prescient, and emotionally rich sci-fi adventure from Hoffmann (The Outside), is one of the few humans on Jupiter “talented enough to get a steady wage for the kind of work a machine couldn’t do.” She works as a script supervisor for a... Continue reading »
The Last Lady BEloisa James. Gallery, $19 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-6682-0005-6
Dripping with suspense and sensuality, this standalone Regency from bestseller James (the Accidental Brides series) proves she remains at the top of her game. Genevieve “Evie” Hughes marries the decades older, thrice-widowed Lord Burnsby, whom she believes to be kind and harmless, in exchange for hi... Continue reading »
The WoodchipperJoe Ollmann. Drawn & Quarterly, $25 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-77046-823-8
Nothing comes easy for the denizens of Hamilton, Ontario, in these wry, bruising, and mordantly funny stories from Ollmann (Fictional Father). In “Nestled All Snug,” a toppled pile of boxes traps a bookstore employee in a dingy staff bathroom. In “Meat,” a security guard at a meat-packing f... Continue reading »
Swirl & VortexLarry Levis, edited by David St. John. Graywolf, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-1-64445-371-1
This monumental volume of Levis’s collected works is a study in the development and deepening of his gifts, from his debut in 1972 to poems published following his death in 1996. Levis’s bruised, engrossing voice suggests the “long, volleying/ Echoes of billiards in the pool halls where/ I spent it ... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule LakeTamiko Nimura. Univ. of Washington, $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-295-75475-8
In this gut-wrenching work of intergenerational dialogue, Nimura (We Hereby Refuse) braids passages from her late father’s unpublished memoir of growing up in California’s Tule Lake Japanese-American concentration camp during WWII with her own reflections on the text. When Nimura’s father, ... Continue reading »
Southern Roots: Recipes and Stories from Mama Dip’s DaughterSpring Council. Countryman, $29.99 (248) ISBN 978-1-324-11132-0
Council devotes her warmhearted debut to the culinary heritage passed down by her mother, Mildred Council, the restaurateur behind North Carolina’s Mama Dip’s Kitchen, which closed in 2025 after a 50-year run. Drawing on food traditions from Chapel Hill’s Northside Black community, these 100 recipes... Continue reading »
We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American ChristianityKristin T. Lee. Broadleaf, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 979-8-88983-502-8
In her penetrating debut, physician Lee uses the Japanese art of kintsugi, the practice of mending broken pottery with gold lacquer, to illustrate how she repaired a faith fractured by a childhood steeped in Western theology. Lee grew up in an immigrant church in Iowa that practiced Chinese customs ... Continue reading »
Being Aro: A Collection of Aromantic Fiction About Love, Connection, and EmpowermentEdited by Madeline Dyer and Rosiee Thor. Page Street, $19.99 (304p) ISBN 979-8-8900-3442-7
In the spirit of Being Ace, Dyer (These Bodies Ain’t Broken) and Thor (This Is How We Roll) gather 13 writers, including Isa Fiel, Laura Pohl, and Rukman Ragas, to present an impassioned anthology about aromantic teens that explores a range of experiences across varying ge... Continue reading »
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