Reema Zaman, "I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir" (Amb...
Zaman details what happens when women are silenced by the patriarchy—and what it means to find the power inherent in one’s own voice...
40 min
1302
Vandana Singh, "Ambiguity Machines and Other St...
Vandana Singh has made a career of studying both hard science and the far corners of creativity..
39 min
1303
Anne Cushman, "The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love,...
This thoughtful book spans an eighteen-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice...
55 min
1304
Tsering Döndrup, "The Handsome Monk and Other S...
Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...
74 min
1305
Ana Johns, "The Woman in the White Kimono" (Par...
Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an American navy man...
32 min
1306
Audrey Schulman, "Theory of Bastards" (Europa E...
The novel, which won this year’s Philip K. Dick Award, was almost never written...
35 min
1307
Ariela Freedman, "A Joy to Be Hidden" (Linda Le...
It’s the late 1990’s and Alice Stein is a grad student in New York City. Her father died the previous year, leaving her mother with 8-year-old twins to raise...
28 min
1308
Chelsea Biondolillo, "The Skinned Bird" (Kernpu...
Biondolillo peels away both her own, and her reader’s, tidy understandings of the self and the natural world, and reveals messy and difficult narratives, memories, and revelations...
50 min
1309
R. F. Kuang, "The Poppy War" (Harper Voyager, 2...
Rin, an orphan raised by a family that treats her badly, is no Harry Potter, despite the superficial similarities...
33 min
1310
Julie Zuckerman, "The Book of Jeremiah" (Press ...
Spanning eight decades and interwoven with the Jewish experience of the 20th century, Julie Zuckerman charts Jeremiah’s life from boyhood, through service in WWII, to marriage and children, a professorship and finally retirement, with compassion, honesty, and a respect that even Gerstler himself would find touching...
23 min
1311
Sally Wen Mao, "Oculus" (Graywolf Press, 2019)
48 min
1312
Hilary Plum, "Watchfire" (Rescue Press, 2016)
Plum examines our moment at the cellular level—whether that’s a cancerous cell or a terrorist cell—with the aim of understanding what’s happened to us in the Iraq War, in the attacks on 9/11, at the Boston Marathon bombings...
48 min
1313
Caitlin Starling, "The Luminous Dead" (Harper V...
Caitlin Starling’s debut The Luminous Dead (Harper Voyager, 2019) takes readers along with her young protagonist, Gyre Price, to a place few would voluntarily go...
35 min
1314
J Mase III, "And Then I Got Fired: One Transque...
J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...
28 min
1315
Ann Weisgarber, "The Glovemaker" (Skyhorse Publ...
The Glovemaker (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019) asks important questions about love and loyalty, faith and independence, the power of love and of family...
36 min
1316
Meg Elison, "The Book of Flora" (47North, 2019)
Meg Elison’s "The Book of Flora" trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse...
36 min
1317
Patricia Leavy, "Spark" (The Guilford Press, 2019)
The book is a highly original novel about an unexpected yet extremely fruitful journey of a sociologist professor, Peyton Wilde. Peyton...
71 min
1318
Susan Smith Daniels, "The Genuine Stories" (New...
The Genuine Stories is a linked collection centered around Genevieve “Genuine” Eriksson, a woman with an uncanny ability to heal people...
30 min
1319
Elsa Hart, "City of Ink" (Minotaur Books, 2018)
34 min
1320
Frances Donovan, "Mad Quick Hand of the Seashor...
Donavan examines what it is to love romantically, sexually, as a friend, and as a resident of the world...
41 min
1321
Jennifer Acker on the Importance of Food in Fic...
The Limits of the World (Delphinium Books, 2019) is a rich novel about how we navigate the bonds of family, culture and religion in a world made smaller by immigration and technology...
30 min
1322
Anand Prahlad, "The Secret Life of a Black Aspi...
Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...
56 min
1323
Kelly J. Beard, "An Imperfect Rapture" (Zone 3 ...
In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...
51 min
1324
Stephen Hough, "The Final Retreat" (Sylph Editi...
One of the key questions that The Final Retreat poses is connected with the pursuit of peace and harmony: the quest, however, is inseparable from struggles and frustrations...
30 min
1325
Sara Tantlinger, "The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry...
Narratively arranged, these poems offer up an evocative and chilling imagining of life and times of Holmes along with his wives, victims, and accomplices...