Williams presents a familiar world full of burnings carried out on both the grand and intimate scale...

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...

Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.

Harris talks about the trip she made with her friend Mel, tracing Marco Polo’s route across Central Asia and Tibet...

Vandana Singh has made a career of studying both hard science and the far corners of creativity..

This thoughtful book spans an eighteen-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice...

Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...

Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an American navy man...

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...

The novel, which won this year’s Philip K. Dick Award, was almost never written...

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...

Rin, an orphan raised by a family that treats her badly, is no Harry Potter, despite the superficial similarities...

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...

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...

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...

J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...

The Glovemaker (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019) asks important questions about love and loyalty, faith and independence, the power of love and of family...

Meg Elison’s "The Book of Flora" trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse...

The book is a highly original novel about an unexpected yet extremely fruitful journey of a sociologist professor, Peyton Wilde. Peyton...

The Genuine Stories is a linked collection centered around Genevieve “Genuine” Eriksson, a woman with an uncanny ability to heal people...

Donavan examines what it is to love romantically, sexually, as a friend, and as a resident of the world...

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...

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...