The protagonists of these gorgeous stories from Williams (Concerning the Future of Souls) grapple with mortality and their hold on reality. The sad and darkly funny “Stuff” begins with 60-something Henry mistakenly receiving a terminal diagnosis meant for a much older fellow lung cancer pat... Continue reading »

CIA officers Kasey Sheridan and Walter Ho attempt to shield Chinese physicist Dr. Chen Li and his secret weapon from America’s enemies in this excellent standalone from Thor (Edge of Honor) and Larson (Dark Vector). At the outset, Sheridan and Ho are relaxing with Li on an escape p... Continue reading »

This scintillating romantasy series launch from Odette (Curse of the Wolf King) transports readers to the violent theocracy of the Holy Continent, where all arts and passions are viewed as deadly sins and strictly forbidden. Society is ruled by the immortal, emotionless Sinless, those who h... Continue reading »

Blake’s endearing and believable second Clover Lake romance (after Dream On, Ramona Riley) puts the enemies-to-lovers and forced proximity tropes to excellent use. April Evans is still reeling from the betrayal of her cheating ex-fiancee, Elena Watson, who left her for beautiful younger art... Continue reading »

Former The Nib editors Mirk (Guantanamo Voices) and Harris (Be Gay, Do Comics) deliver a handy-dandy how-to for aspiring and established creators of fact-based comics. The various types of graphic nonfiction are helpfully broken down: graphic journalism, history comics, pe... Continue reading »

This brilliant collection of previously unpublished poems from Berryman’s Dream Songs cycle is proof, as Shane McCrae writes in the introduction, that he “understood his epic to be complete, but he did not believe that its completeness could have only one form.” For McCrae, Henry—Berryman’s alter-eg... 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 »

Former Doubleday executive editor Howard debuts with a thrilling biography of writer, editor, and literary critic Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989). Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Cowley graduated from Harvard before moving to Paris in the 1920s, where he fell in with the Lost Generation, an experi... Continue reading »

Taste the Nation host Lakshmi (Love, Loss, and What We Ate) uses this gorgeous compendium of recipes collected during her travels across the U.S. to craft a “love letter” to “all [the] immigrants who have made a life here and, in turn, made America what it is.” An extensive introdu... Continue reading »

These stimulating essays and interviews from the first 50 years of Sojourners magazine, collected by poetry editor Berger (Who Killed Donte Manning?), seek “sabbath rest, contemplation, solitude, simplicity, and communal resilience” in today’s world. Franciscan priest Richard Rohr ... Continue reading »

Ixta (Shut Up, This Is Serious) examines young love, environmental justice, and the cost of integrity in her timely and engaging sophomore novel. High school senior Paloma Vistamontes has felt adrift for more than a year, since her childhood best friend and ex-boyfriend, Julio Ramos, cut co... Continue reading »