It’s not unusual for a debut novel to be long and full of ideas, but it’s rare to come across one as fully formed and intensely readable as Lefferts’s. It’s about a finance intern disenchanted by the ...

The foundation has debuted an annual lifetime achievement prize, to be awarded each year at the Massachusetts Independent ...

After issuing a preliminary injunction in July 2023, a federal judge in Arkansas has now permanently struck down two key ...

Historian Adlington follows up The Dressmakers of Auschwitz with a moving account of four Jewish girls persecuted during the Holocaust whose fates were intertwined with a simple article of a ...

Kelley debuts with a captivating and perfectly balanced blend of history, fantasy, and good old-fashioned carnival magic. In 1911 New York City, Puerto Rican immigrant Benny makes a meager and ...

Cavanagh sacrifices plausibility for plot surprises in his disappointing eighth thriller featuring New York City con man–turned–attorney Eddie Flynn (after The Accomplice). A prologue ...

Collins debuts with a finely tuned tale of artistic ambition and cultural shifts in the 1970s Texas music scene. Married Austin bar owners Deanna and Wendell hire up-and-coming singer-songwriter ...

irshenbaum (Rabbits for Food) offers a deeply moving and playfully arch narrative of an artist dealing with her husband’s mental and physical decline. A typical “internal weather report” for ...

In Mahloudji’s ebullient debut, a Persian family reckons with their exile and loss of prestige in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. In December 2005, middle-aged Shirin Valiat, a charismatic ...

The journey to a destination wedding hits some turbulence in McBreen’s entertaining debut. Ada Gallman is dreading her sister’s wedding in Ireland partly because of their strained relationship ...

Nourishing Amy blogger Lanza debuts with a poorly organized assortment of basic vegan recipes. The collection is divided into two sections of 40 recipes each: part one, “Healthy Brain ...

The practice of segregating sports by sex is rooted in patriarchal values, not scientific fact, according to this forceful polemic from Bekker, a professor of health at the University of Bath, and ...