Reviews and recommendations across new fiction and nonfiction.
Lucy Foley’s authorized take on Miss Marple is electric, a tightly plotted mystery set firmly in the 1950s that somehow still feels modern.
A young woman with dreams of stardom makes a wish—and things go downhill from there in Tananarive Due’s terrific, complex Mazywood .
A paranormal romance with the feel of a classic rom-com, You’re the One That I Haunt delivers full-throttle charm.
To Our Untamed Core by Sonido Reyes is both a page-turning adventure and a solemn reflection on power, choices and identity.
The Fantastic Floating Mr. Finnegan is brimming with charming, clever illustrations that encourage readers to embrace their quirks and value those who celebrate them just as they…
Fans of puzzles, meta storytelling and mysteries about mysteries will devour Jessica Brody’s love letter to classic crime fiction.
Alexis Nikole Nelson, known on social media as Black Forager, pads practical advice and inventive recipes with humor in her vegan cookbook, Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!
It’s really difficult to deliver a complex blend of the personal and the political in fiction. In Female Life on Planet Earth , Laleh Khadivi does it gorgeously.
The art in Emil Wilson’s monumental graphic novel, The Nightingales , is as tender, messy and raw as the unresolvable feelings of its characters.
Madeline ffitch’s second novel, Avalon, Rise , is a humane and timely work about the turmoil incited when neo-Nazis start gaining power in a fading Appalachian town.
Horrify your book club with Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory or Jennifer Thorne’s Diavola . Happy haunting!
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre’s smoldering swamp noir takes off from the history of the despicable racist trope of Black children being used as alligator bait.