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Delilah Green Doesn't Care: A Sexy Queer Romance with Emotional Heft By Delia Harrington February 23, 2022 | 10:30am
The Paris Apartment Sets a Dark Mystery in the City of Light By Lacy Baugher Milas February 22, 2022 | 3:03pm
A River Enchanted: A Magical Island Takes Center Stage in Rebecca Ross’s Adult Debut By Lacy Baugher Milas February 16, 2022 | 10:00am
Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath: Sarah J. Maas’s Fantasy Sequel Expands Its World Like Never Before By Lacy Baugher Milas February 15, 2022 | 10:01am
This Woven Kingdom: A Star-Crossed Romance Set in a Rich Persian-Inspired Fantasy World By Lacy Baugher Milas February 1, 2022 | 11:00am
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Modernizes Hawaiian Legends By B. David Zarley March 31, 2020 | 3:56pm
Samantha Irby's New Book Draws Us Into Her Hilarious, Gross World By Liz Shannon Miller March 31, 2020 | 2:27pm
A Ponzi Scheme Ruins Countless Lives in The Glass Hotel By Liz Shannon Miller March 27, 2020 | 4:30pm
American Sherlock Profiles the Man Who Shaped Modern Forensic Science By B. David Zarley March 18, 2020 | 5:10pm
Victorian Women Were Judged, and Too Much Reveals Why That Matters Today By Bridey Heing March 12, 2020 | 4:06pm
Saint X Revolves Around a College Student's Dead Body By Bridey Heing March 10, 2020 | 5:00pm
A Map Is Only One Story Boasts 20 Must-Read Essays About Immigration By Bridey Heing March 9, 2020 | 3:52pm
Children Hunt Kidnappers in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line By Bridey Heing February 20, 2020 | 2:38pm
Uncanny Valley Delivers a Refreshing Take on the Silicon Valley Memoir By Bridey Heing January 24, 2020 | 1:38pm
A Woman Searches for Her Sister and a Killer in Long Bright River By Bridey Heing January 16, 2020 | 3:38pm
Lindy West Reminds Us Why We're Glad The Witches Are Coming By Bridey Heing November 26, 2019 | 1:32pm
A Woman Gives Birth to a Rabbit in Dexter Palmer's New Novel By Jane Huang November 21, 2019 | 2:30pm
People Pretended to Be Insane for a Psychiatric Study; The Great Pretender Investigates the Results By Bridey Heing November 18, 2019 | 2:44pm
Fate of the Fallen Explores What Happens When the "Chosen One" Fails to Save the World By Jane Huang November 6, 2019 | 3:34pm
Jaquira Díaz's Powerful Memoir Highlights the Ordinary Lives We Often Ignore By Bridey Heing November 5, 2019 | 1:57pm
Nuns Fight Evil in Space in Sisters of the Vast Black By Jane Huang October 29, 2019 | 2:38pm
Adrienne Brodeur's Memoir Looks Back on a Decade of Hiding Her Mom's Affair By Bridey Heing October 25, 2019 | 12:21pm
Women's Rage Gloriously Takes Center Stage in Burn It Down By Bridey Heing October 18, 2019 | 3:36pm
Amaryllis Fox's New Memoir Explores Her Life Undercover in the CIA By Jane Huang October 17, 2019 | 1:05pm
A Feminist Princess Is the Hero of How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse By Jane Huang October 10, 2019 | 2:36pm
Leslie Jamison's Essay Collection Tackles Everything from Blue Whales to Broken Hearts By Bridey Heing September 30, 2019 | 4:49pm
Time-Traveling Feminists Edit History in Annalee Newitz's Latest Novel By Jane Huang September 25, 2019 | 2:36pm
Jennifer Giesbrecht's Debut Asks, "What If a Magical Oscar Wilde Shacked Up with a Sexy Babadook?" By Steve Foxe September 24, 2019 | 1:55pm
Jacqueline Woodson's Red at the Bone Is a Must-Read Family Saga By Bridey Heing September 17, 2019 | 1:05pm
Patricia Wiltshire Utilizes Forensic Ecology to Solve Crimes in The Nature of Life and Death By Jane Huang September 4, 2019 | 4:57pm
We Need More Books About Women's Health, But Hysterical Misses the Mark By Bridey Heing August 28, 2019 | 4:34pm
Abigail Pesta's The Girls Succeeds by Solely Giving a Voice to Sexual Assault Survivors—Not Their Abuser By Bridey Heing August 19, 2019 | 1:16pm
Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House Is the New Orleans Story America's Been Missing By Bridey Heing August 15, 2019 | 1:53pm
Is the Semicolon Misunderstood? Author Cecelia Watson Thinks So By Bridey Heing August 9, 2019 | 4:08pm
A Girl Takes the Place of a Missing Teen in Sarah Elaine Smith's Enthralling Debut By Bridey Heing August 1, 2019 | 12:22pm
Red Riding Hood Faces the Apocalypse in Christina Henry's New Novel By Bridey Heing July 3, 2019 | 12:39pm
Stan Lee's Alliances: A Trick of Light Boasts Cyberkinetic Powers By Alexis Gunderson June 27, 2019 | 3:47pm
Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls Delivers Everything from a Love Story to a War Drama By Bridey Heing June 13, 2019 | 4:12pm
Seanan McGuire's Novel Middlegame Is an Alchemical Delight By Josh Jackson June 5, 2019 | 3:32pm
Eve Ensler's Father Abused Her. The Apology Is Her Attempt to Create Closure. By Bridey Heing May 24, 2019 | 4:34pm
Surrogacy Takes a Dystopian Turn in Joanne Ramos' Debut Novel The Farm By Bridey Heing May 22, 2019 | 4:43pm
If Grief Makes You Uncomfortable, You Need to Read The Hot Young Widows Club By Bridey Heing May 14, 2019 | 12:45pm
Sarah Blake's Naamah Is the Feminist Bible Retelling We Need in 2019 By Bridey Heing April 9, 2019 | 1:08pm
In The Floating World, C. Morgan Babst Attempts to Write the Novel on Hurricane Katrina By Lucas Iberico Lozada October 24, 2017 | 4:25pm
With In the Distance, Hernán Díaz Weaves an Extraordinary 1800s Tale By Lucas Iberico Lozada October 19, 2017 | 11:22am
Women Steal the Spotlight in Martha Batalha's The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao By Lucas Iberico Lozada October 10, 2017 | 4:49pm
Christopher Hill's Into the Mystic Combines Rock and Roll History with Ecstatic Traditions By Amy Glynn October 9, 2017 | 5:02pm
In Bloodlines, Melissa del Bosque Tracks a Web of Cocaine and Horse Racing By B. David Zarley September 14, 2017 | 6:10pm
Everyone Gets a Voice in the Oral History David Bowie: A Life By Robert Ham September 13, 2017 | 4:22pm
Lisbeth Salander's Saga Continues in The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye By Eric Swedlund September 12, 2017 | 4:53pm
Motherhood Usurps Identity in Cherise Wolas' The Resurrection of Joan Ashby By Bridey Heing August 30, 2017 | 5:24pm
John Boyne Has Written an Irish Epic with The Heart's Invisible Furies By Bridey Heing August 25, 2017 | 12:49pm
Ann Powers' Good Booty Shines a Light on Race and Sex in American Music By Emmet Penney August 17, 2017 | 1:33pm
Ladee Hubbard Imagines a Superpower-Enhanced "Talented Tenth" in The Talented Ribkins By Steve Nathans-Kelly August 8, 2017 | 1:48pm
The Protagonist in Linnea Hartsuyker's The Half-Drowned King Deserves to Be Stabbed By Jason Rhode August 3, 2017 | 5:14pm
Adam Sternbergh Delivers Witness Protection with a Speculative Twist in The Blinds By Steve Nathans-Kelly August 2, 2017 | 4:34pm
Sarah Hall's New Story Collection, Madame Zero, Is Haunting and Extraordinary By Bridey Heing July 26, 2017 | 3:22pm
Roger Steffens Weaves the Oral History of Bob Marley in So Much Things to Say By Jason Rhode July 13, 2017 | 5:02pm
Rachel Khong Finds the Humor in Loss in Her Debut Novel Goodbye, Vitamin By Bradley Babendir July 13, 2017 | 3:25pm
A Child's Murder by Police Ignites Brian Platzer's Bed-Stuy Is Burning By Steve Nathans-Kelly July 11, 2017 | 4:53pm
In Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station, a Climate Change Denier Rocks Antarctica's Research Community By B. David Zarley July 6, 2017 | 4:40pm
In Off the Cliff, Becky Aikman Talks Thelma & Louise While Tackling Hollywood's Misogyny By Jason Rhode June 30, 2017 | 9:05am
Daryl Gregory Serves Up Psychics, Mobsters and Mid-'90s Malaise in Spoonbenders By Steve Nathans-Kelly June 29, 2017 | 4:00pm
Christopher Bollen's The Destroyers Is a Masterful Literary Thriller By B. David Zarley June 27, 2017 | 3:40pm
Anne Helen Petersen's Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud Examines the Sexist Paradox Facing "Unruly Women" By Bridey Heing June 20, 2017 | 3:49pm
Peter Brannen’s The Ends of the World Just Might Help Us Save It By Emmet Martin Penney June 14, 2017 | 3:46pm
A Mythological Beast Haunts a Village in Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent By Bridey Heing June 9, 2017 | 2:00pm
A Musician Struggles to Record a Final Album in Don Lee's Lonesome Lies Before Us By Eric Swedlund June 8, 2017 | 4:25pm
In Erin Kelly's Thriller He Said/She Said, an Eclipse Hides a Violent Crime By B. David Zarley June 7, 2017 | 4:41pm
Tristan Donovan's It's All A Game Offers a Thorough History of Board Games By Jason Rhode May 30, 2017 | 12:33pm
Come for the Chills, Stay for the Characters in J. Robert Lennon's Broken River By Pete Mercer May 18, 2017 | 12:11pm
Puk Damsgård's The ISIS Hostage Examines the Horror of an Irregular War By B. David Zarley May 12, 2017 | 12:48pm
In Jim Al-Khalili's Aliens, Scientists Discuss the Search for Extraterrestrial Life By Jason Rhode May 11, 2017 | 5:21pm
In Jo Nesbø's The Thirst, Detective Harry Hole Tracks a Twisted Killer By Eric Swedlund May 10, 2017 | 3:56pm
The Good, the Bad and the Hilariously Filthy: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood By Bridey Heing May 4, 2017 | 1:46pm
Feral, By The Purge Screenwriter James DeMonaco and B.K. Evenson, Fails as a Horror Novel By B. David Zarley April 7, 2017 | 4:06pm
Taylor Brown's Prose in The River of Kings is Reminiscent of Terrence Malick By Steve Nathans-Kelly March 24, 2017 | 4:53pm
The Moth's All These Wonders Delivers a Mix of Captivating and Dull Stories By Jason Rhode March 22, 2017 | 5:13pm
David Bellos Explores Les Misérables' Dramatic History in The Novel of the Century By Jason Rhode March 21, 2017 | 3:17pm
Susan Perabo's The Fall of Lisa Bellow Explores the Fascinating Aftermath of an Abduction By Bridey Heing March 17, 2017 | 5:59pm
The Stranger in the Woods Tells the Extraordinary Tale of the "Last True Hermit" By Eric Swedlund March 8, 2017 | 12:11pm
Fans Get an Unfiltered Peek at Joan Didion's Writing Process in South and West By Bridey Heing March 7, 2017 | 12:07pm
Three Students' Lives Prove Hauntingly Relevant in Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz By B. David Zarley March 2, 2017 | 11:14am
Melissa Febos' Intimate Memoir Abandon Me Will Tap Into Your Fears By Bridey Heing March 1, 2017 | 1:00pm
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology Reads Like a Bible Produced by Marvel By Mark Peters February 13, 2017 | 3:51pm
An Act of Violence Highlights Both Sides of the Abortion Debate in Joyce Carol Oates' A Book of American Martyrs By Bridey Heing February 8, 2017 | 12:29pm
In Pachinko, Min Jin Lee Traces a Korean Family's Immigrant Experience Across Four Generations By Christine An February 7, 2017 | 11:27am
Brad Gooch Chronicles the Iconic Sufi Poet's Life in Rumi's Secret By Bridey Heing January 18, 2017 | 11:48am
Janet Ellis Unleashes an Avenging Angel on Georgian London in The Butcher's Hook By Bridey Heing January 12, 2017 | 4:41pm
Music Icon Wilson Pickett Garners His First Biography with Tony Fletcher's In the Midnight Hour By Robert Ham January 10, 2017 | 2:43pm
Kaya Genç's Under the Shadow Offers a Snapshot of Turkey's Political Landscape By B. David Zarley December 30, 2016 | 3:30pm
A Math Savant Defects from North Korea in J.M. Lee's The Boy Who Escaped Paradise By Bridey Heing December 29, 2016 | 10:40am
David France's How to Survive a Plague Is a Remarkable, Infuriating History of AIDS By B. David Zarley December 9, 2016 | 4:23pm
Zadie Smith's Swing Time Dismantles the Question "Which Woman Do You Sleep With & Which Do You Marry?" By Shannon M. Houston December 5, 2016 | 12:36pm
Mata Hari Gains a Sensual and Tragic Voice in Paulo Coelho's The Spy By Bridey Heing November 23, 2016 | 2:38pm
Against Me! Frontwoman Laura Jane Grace Offers Blunt Confessions in Tranny By Robert Ham November 18, 2016 | 2:09pm
Clare Beams Proves She's a Captivating Literary Voice with We Show What We Have Learned By Christine An October 28, 2016 | 4:03pm
In Beatles '66, Steve Turner Explores a Revolutionary Year in the Band's Life By Robert Ham October 27, 2016 | 2:15pm
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Introduces Warring Vampires to Mexico City in Certain Dark Things By B. David Zarley October 26, 2016 | 4:55pm
Jonathan Lethem Tackles Telepathy and a Tumor in A Gambler's Anatomy By Eric Swedlund October 20, 2016 | 11:14am
In Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood Reimagines Shakespeare's The Tempest By Bridey Heing October 12, 2016 | 3:24pm
Nell Zink Populates Her Pages with Enthralling Anarchists in Nicotine By Steve Nathans-Kelly October 5, 2016 | 12:33pm
Bruce Springsteen Delivers a Rough Memoir in Born to Run By Robert Ham September 30, 2016 | 3:34pm
Dave Eggers Sets His Characters Loose in Alaska in Heroes of the Frontier By Bridey Heing September 23, 2016 | 3:13pm
Juan Gabriel Vásquez Traces a Political Cartoonist's Power in Reputations By B. David Zarley September 22, 2016 | 3:55pm
In A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles Creates a Spellbinding Frenzy Reminiscent of Alexandre Dumas By Steve Nathans-Kelly September 16, 2016 | 4:45pm
Carl Hiaasen's Razor Girl Chronicles an Inventive Kidnapping Plot Gone Awry By Eric Swedlund September 7, 2016 | 12:45pm
Shaun Harris' The Hemingway Thief Delivers a Literary Mystery with a High Body Count By Steve Nathans-Kelly August 23, 2016 | 2:55pm

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