1+ week, 6+ day ago   (377+ words) Chloe Benjamin’s Under Story is an expansive literary sci-fi tale balancing speculative physics with a deeply relatable story of love and grief. In Chloe Benjamin’s exquisitely imagined and emotionally rich Under Story, a woman moves to Antarctica in search of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (219+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source Even before its first page, Katy Simpson Smith’s The Maltese Version lets the reader know that it will be a playful kind of novel. The table of contents divides the book into four…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) Florence Hazrat’s clever, charming On the Mark celebrates punctuation and shows that it’s “a natural outgrowth of our evolution as a species.” In the tradition of Lynne Truss’ 2003 bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, On the Mark is a playful book, one…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (207+ words) The audiobook of Katherine Arden's The Unicorn Hunters overflows with intrigue, magic and tantalizing romance. Katherine Arden’s latest historical fantasy, The Unicorn Hunters (13.5 hours) takes listeners to a version of late 15th-century Europe: one where magic holds sway. Anne is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (172+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source Ray is largely out of the picture in the second of the three episodes, in which his irascible friend Pepper takes on a bodyguard gig for a shady art collector. When the payoff…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (476+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source Clearly, this gathering in PT’s honor involves some potential land mines, but Faye is drawn to the tension simmering beneath the somber greetings and social niceties. She wonders if Henry’s seen the TV…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (258+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source Some nights, I dream that my dad comes back from the dead and everything goes back to normal. That is, until we both remember that this can’t be happening, and he must leave…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (473+ words) Tae Keller writes with empathy and insight, and her characters raise When Tomorrow Burns to another level. Middle school can often feel like a fiery disaster, and that’s certainly the case for three students in Tae Keller’s marvelous new novel,…...