Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth-century United States:..

Part travelogue, part history, Walton charts the opportunities and pitfalls confronting small states that have become particularly acute in an era of identity politics and civilizational leadership...

The stories and fables in A Girl Goes into the Forest twist and turn...

First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...

Davitt explores the intersections of myth, science, and humanity through her beautifully accessible poems...

It’s 1991, and recent college graduate Mim wants to be a writer, but for now she is folding clothes at Benetton...

"The Lost Daughter" is a thoroughly satisfying read: Romanov fans will rejoice at this latest iteration of the alternative narrative...

In Cadwell Turnbull’s "The Lesson", the U.S. Virgin Islands serve as Earth’s entry point for the Ynaa,

"Dear Current Occupant" is also a letter to Knight’s younger selves, to the girl and eventually young woman who lived in these places and who struggled to discover who she was and who she could be...

The Hazel Wood(Flatiron Books, 2018) is a shivery delight, like a dazzling vintage ball gown of paisley silk, slithering over your head...

Considered one of the greatest Hebrew writers, in 1966, Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the rural West for twenty years...

In his interview, Fletcher discusses the research that informs the novel’s “soft apocalypse"...

The Golden Wolf seamlessly blends Old Norse folklore with creative imagination to paint a picture of ninth-century Norway from the inside...

Karen Hugg loves plants and is thrilled when new cultivars or varieties are discovered...

It is not easy to interview a writer of murder mysteries without giving away too many details...

Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...

Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from popular memory...

The only thing that endures after millennia of espionage and intrigue is love...

A picaresque novel about a serious boy with special powers, "The Lost Puzzler" takes place in an impoverished, technologically backwards world.

It’s 1979, and the Islamic Revolution is just around the corner, as is a massive solar eclipse...

Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...

Willig nimbly balances Emily’s story against her grandfather’s, interweaving the stories of three families across two timelines into a seamless whole...

Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zombies, vampires, and werewolves—to the threat of an alien invasion...