Ditlevsen (The Copenhagen Trilogy) published this aching and accomplished work of autofiction about love and punishment in 1975, one year before her death by suicide. Lise, a successful middle-aged writer, has recently been left by her cheating husband, Vilhelm, and now tries to move on fro... Continue reading »

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 »

Hairston (Archangels of Funk) mixes a serial killer investigation with elements of urban fantasy and sci-fi to create a cozy, magical, and strikingly unique concoction. She pits a quirky cast—headlined by cleaner and aspiring detective Paula B. Queenie, podcaster An’qwenique Robinson, and m... Continue reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

This shocking exposé uncovers how Chicago police have used false confessions and cherry-picked evidence to systematically produce wrongful convictions of African American boys. Sociologist Gonzalez Van Cleve (Crook County) spotlights harrowing examples of children being falsely accused of e... Continue reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »