Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Si...
For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”
37 min
1377
Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press...
For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors...
31 min
1378
Adrienne Celt, "Invitation to a Bonfire" (Bloom...
"Invitation to a Bonfire" is inspired by the life of the well-known Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.
37 min
1379
Sharon Shinn, "Echo in Onyx: Uncommon Echoes" (...
Brianna, our narrator, is the daughter of a country inn-keeper...
33 min
1380
Eliot Peper, "Breach" (47North, 2019)
The massive corporation at the center of Eliot Peper’s "Analog" trilogy, which he completed last month with the publication of "Breach" (47North, 2019) is radically different from most science fictional companies
41 min
1381
Christopher Rea, "China's Chaplin: Comic Storie...
Rea introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh...
37 min
1382
Nina Boutsikaris, "I’m Trying to Tell You I’m S...
It takes an apology like Boutsikaris gives to reveal that complexity and help us live with it and in it rather than reduce it to some simple—and false—truth...
44 min
1383
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
1384
John Sibley Williams, "As One Fire Consumes Ano...
Williams presents a familiar world full of burnings carried out on both the grand and intimate scale...
49 min
1385
Pauline W. Chen, "Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Refle...
Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.
39 min
1386
Kate Harris, "Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey ...
Harris talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo’s route across Central Asia and Tibet...
29 min
1387
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
1388
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
1389
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
1390
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
1391
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
1392
Audrey Schulman, "Theory of Bastards" (Europa E...
The novel, which won this year’s Philip K. Dick Award, was almost never written...
35 min
1393
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
1394
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
1395
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
1396
Sally Wen Mao, "Oculus" (Graywolf Press, 2019)
48 min
1397
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
1398
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
1399
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
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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...