Sarah St. Vincent, "Ways to Hide in Winter" (Me...
"Ways to Hide in Winter" is a powerful story about violence and redemption, betrayal and empathy, and how we reconcile the unforgivable in those we love...
23 min
1402
jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" ...
jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...
44 min
1403
C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of...
101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...
"Practice Dying" is about twins, David and Jamila, who seek meaning and connection from opposite ends of the world...
26 min
1405
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
1406
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
1407
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
1408
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
1409
Sharon Shinn, "Echo in Onyx: Uncommon Echoes" (...
Brianna, our narrator, is the daughter of a country inn-keeper...
33 min
1410
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
1411
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
1412
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
1413
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
1414
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
1415
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
1416
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
1417
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
1418
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
1419
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
1420
Audrey Schulman, "Theory of Bastards" (Europa E...
The novel, which won this year’s Philip K. Dick Award, was almost never written...
35 min
1421
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
1422
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
1423
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
1424
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...