An Infinite Love StoryChanel Cleeton. Berkley, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-81695-0
Cleeton (The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes) delivers a heartrending yet hopeful story of an astronaut’s wife holding on to her husband’s memory in the wake of a mission gone wrong. In 1968 Cape Kennedy, Fla., Vivian Mitchell faces her worst fear: her husband Joe’s Moon-bound shuttle has lost co... Continue reading »
Nothing on EarthIan MacKenzie. Unnamed Press, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-1-961884-78-6
MacKenzie (Feast Days) delivers an ambitious blend of espionage thriller and metaphysical fiction that spans a decade of geopolitical upheaval and takes readers from the Horn of Africa to Myanmar. After the 9/11 attacks, American spy Anna Hendrix worked for years in counterterrorism before ... Continue reading »
SublimationIsabel J. Kim. Tor, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-37679-4
Nebula Award winner Kim debuts with a strikingly original work of speculative fiction that brilliantly uses an audacious conceit—that immigration literally splits a person into two separate “instances” of themselves, one who moves to their new home and one who stays behind—to excavate questions of i... Continue reading »
Romantic HeroKristy Greenwood. Berkley, $19 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-81615-8
A touch of interdimensional magic sets the stage for this fun and heartfelt rom-rom from Greenwood (The Love of My After Life). London-based romance novelist Gertie Bickerstaff is too brokenhearted after her boyfriend leaves her to finish writing the final book in her Bedlam Creek Ranch ser... 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 »
VisitationsJulia Alvarez. Knopf, $27 (112p) ISBN 978-0-593-80503-9
In her prismatic fourth collection, novelist, memoirist, and poet Alvarez (The Woman I Kept to Myself) spins richly detailed micro-narratives of her childhood in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s, her young adulthood in New York City, and beyond. Vivid scenes include reciting poems for he... 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 »
Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in GazaHassan Kanafani, with Yasuko Thanh. Arsenal Pulp, $17.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-83405-032-4
“Read this book,” memoirist Thanh (To the Bridge) implores in her introduction to this nightmarish memoir of everyday life in Gaza. “Hassan Kanafani risked his life to write it.” Drawn from the author’s Reddit posts spanning from December 2024 to July 2025, the diary centers on life in the ... Continue reading »
My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched IslandAndre Fowles. Artisan, $35 (328) ISBN 978-1-64829-374-0
“I discovered food as a bridge to hope,” writes chef Fowles, three-time Chopped champion, in his bold and flavorful debut. In more than 100 recipes, the Kingston native pays homage to his island roots, drawing particular inspiration from his grandmother’s kitchen. The vibrant flavors of Jam... Continue reading »
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American RevolutionSarah M.S. Pearsall. Doubleday, $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-54871-7
This sprawling, immersive account from historian Pearsall (Atlantic Families) explores “the effect of the world on the American Revolution” rather than the “too often” emphasized opposite. The book opens with a reflection on colonial militiamen’s powder horns, which were typically carved wi... Continue reading »
If You Went to the Bottom of the OceanBrooke McIntyre, illus. by Gordy Wright. Chronicle, $19.99 (50p) ISBN 978-1-79722-651-4
A zone-by-zone tour of the ocean’s depths proves awe-inspiring in McIntyre and Wright’s immersive tale of a submersible expedition. Emphasizing the aquatic ecosystem’s immense biodiversity, second-person narration transforms the reader into an explorer. Diving into the sunlight zone, the pictured cr... Continue reading »
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