A popular choice for book jackets in recent years, perhaps especially in the historical fiction genre, is an image of a presumed female figure pictured from the neck down or from behind, omitting the ...
Read ReviewIn Yasmin Zaher's novel The Coin, the unnamed protagonist, who has inherited a coveted Birkin bag from her mother, enters into a pyramid scheme with a relative stranger that involves buying more of ...
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When Yoriko Shindo gets into a brawl on a busy street in 1970s Tokyo, she has no idea what the repercussions will be. Her fighting catches the attention of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the Japanese ...
Read ReviewAkira Otani's intense thriller The Night of Baba Yaga tells the story of two women trying to escape from a branch of the yakuza, a real-life organized crime group thought to have originated in the ...
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A documentary filmmaker, Asya is interested in the "unremarkable grace" of daily life, "the slow and leisurely rot of a day." In a nameless city where she and most of her close friends are foreigners,...
Read ReviewIn Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists, Asya, the novel's narrator, is a documentary filmmaker set to embark on a project based around the goings-on in her local park. Though not explicitly ...
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This book begins with a bombastic premise. Seemingly fed up with the heating planet, the world's animals have launched a revolution against humans. Rats swarm city streets while once gentle cats and ...
Read ReviewMuch of Frankie Barnet's novel Mood Swings takes place in Montreal. Nestled in the southwest of Canada's francophone province of Quebec, Montreal is a multicultural and largely bilingual city with...
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
Our titular heroine's story begins in Yáquimo, Santo Domingo. Jacquotte Delahaye is a young mixed race woman, born to a Black Haitian mother and a white French father. After the death of her ...
Read ReviewThe Mysterious Life of Pirate Captain Jacquotte Delahaye
Briony Cameron's debut novel, The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye, is an imagined look at the life of a female pirate captain sailing the Caribbean in the 17th century. While some of her contemporaries, ...
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"I write about beautiful things because I live in a country that has tried to kill me and every single one of my ancestors." This might serve as Carvell Wallace's mission statement. His ...
Read ReviewAn Interview with Carvell Wallace
Carvell Wallace's debut memoir, Another Word for Love, explores how spirituality and embracing his queer identity helped him heal from childhood trauma. The journalist and podcaster is known ...
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Above the Salt
by Katherine Vaz
A sweeping love story that follows two Portugueses refugees who flee religious violence to build new lives in Civil-War America.
The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
by Bart Yates
A saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man.
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The 1619 Project
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
An impactful expansion of groundbreaking journalism, The 1619 Project offers a revealing vision of America's past and present.
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