Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America...
53 min
1228
Chantal Bilodeau, "Forward" (Tanlonbooks 2018)
Chantal Bilodeau has made a name for herself a playwright singularly dedicated to writing plays about the issue of climate change...
49 min
1229
Jack Fredrickson "The Black Cage: A Milo Rigg M...
It’s bitter winter in Chicago, and disgraced crime reporter Milo Rigg wakes up every night dreaming that his wife is calling to him from a black cage...
35 min
1230
Madeline Ashby, "ReV: The Machine Dynasty, Book...
"ReV:" shows readers the results of a final face-off between self-replicating humanoid robots and humans...
54 min
1231
Bryn Turnbull, "The Woman before Wallis" (Mira ...
Most modern Americans can identify the names Wallace Simpson and Gloria Vanderbilt. But Simpson was not the first divorced American to win the heart of Great Britain’s future if short-reigned King Edward VII...
38 min
1232
Yxta Maya Murray, "The World Doesn't Work that ...
The short stories in this excellent collection are inspired by recent headlines and court cases in America....
There are very few math books that merit the adjective ‘charming.' This is one of them.
54 min
1235
John DeSimone, "Road to Delano" (Rare Bird Book...
It's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human rights, while growers get increasingly violent in trying to prevent unionization....
29 min
1236
Laura Ruby, "Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind T...
Francesca and Toni are brought to the orphanage when their mother suffers a breakdown and dies, and their father gets involved with a new woman...
32 min
1237
Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)
Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place...
52 min
1238
Sonya Bilocerkowycz, "On Our Way Home from the ...
Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...
37 min
1239
Elsa Hart, "The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne" (Min...
Lady Cecily Kay has just returned to England when she encounters Sir Barnaby Mayne. It’s 1703...
33 min
1240
Edward A. Farmer, "Pale: A Novel" (Blackstone, ...
An interview with Edward A. Farmer
27 min
1241
Erika Rummel, "The Road to Gesualdo" (D. X. Var...
The Italian Renaissance introduced—or reintroduced—many valuable concepts to society and culture, giving rise eventually to our modern world...
31 min
1242
Premee Mohamed, "Beneath the Rising" (Solaris, ...
"Beneath the Rising" combines horror, science fiction and fantasy in its portrayal of the complicated friendship of Nick and Joanna (Johnny)...
30 min
1243
Bill LeFurgy, "Into the Suffering City: A Novel...
Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after her own family is murdered....
36 min
1244
Chelsea Wagenaar, "The Spinning Place" (Souther...
Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express...
35 min
1245
Chanelle Benz, "The Gone Dead" (Ecco, 2019)
Told from several perspectives, The Gone Dead (Ecco, 2019) is a story about family and memory, justice for those who were never given a chance, and some of the wounds caused by racism in America...
35 min
1246
Nancy Thayer, "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Balla...
Christina Gessler talks with her friend Nancy Thayer about "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Ballantine Books), which was just chosen for O Magazine’s Summer Reading List...
63 min
1247
Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon ...
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
40 min
1248
Jessica Winters Mireles, "Lost in Oaxaca" (She ...
After an injury to her hand derails her promising concert career, Camille retreats to her mother’s house and teaches piano to mostly desultory students...
26 min
1249
Emily B. Martin, "Sunshield: A Novel" (Harper V...
A frustrated prince out to make a name for himself, a mysterious young woman who goes by the name of the Sunshield Bandit...
34 min
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P. W. Singer and A. Cole, "Burn-In: A Novel of ...
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.