Brimming with soul and longing, Alix E. Harrow’s The Everlasting fluidly morphs from sci-fi adventure to fantasy romance to something akin to political thriller. ... Read full Story
Cameron Crowe’s generous, entertaining The Uncool is a rollicking account of his years traveling with and writing about some of the biggest musical acts of the 1970s. ... Read full Story
Pablo Leon’s superb narrative and artistic skills give Silenced Voices the sweep of an action-filled biopic, exploring personal relationships as well as conveying the gravity of horrific events. ... Read full Story
Wreck is a warmhearted family story about the fragility of life and the bonds of affection that help us weather its most difficult moments. ... Read full Story
Jane Hall’s Making Space explores how the private nature of interiors has allowed women to be extraordinarily innovative during times when they had been otherwise overlooked. ... Read full Story
A fiery story of love, gang violence and magic, When They Burned the Butterfly is a dark coming-of-age fantasy set in 1972 Singapore. ... Read full Story
In The Lost Reliquary, a woman struggles between love for her goddess and the temptation of freedom—which can only be accomplished by deicide. ... Read full Story
Miriam Gurba’s transportive collection of essays, Poppy State, invites readers to explore a garden of personal history, social commentary and, above all, wonder at the natural world. ... Read full Story
Deeply informative, assiduously researched and beautifully written, Julia Ioffe’s feminist history of modern Russia, Motherland, is exhilarating. ... Read full Story
Bad Bad Girl is a unique mashup of literary novel and memoir that tells the fictionalized story of Gish Jen’s mother, from her 1924 birth in Shanghai to her death in the United States in 2020. ... Read full Story
Critically acclaimed memoirist Jaquira Diaz has done something both heartbreaking and wonderful in her debut novel, This Is the Only Kingdom. ... Read full Story
Letitia Clark’s citrus-forward cookbook, For the Love of Lemons, gives this fragrant and versatile fruit the elevated status it so deserves. ... Read full Story
"Telling stories with affection and noodging, [comedian Sarah] Silverman has always been encouraged by her family, who embraced rather than ostracized her for revealing family secrets on the way to reaping howls of laughter." — Thelma Adams, The Boston Globe, 19 May 2025
Did you know?
In ancient Greece, citizens whose power or influence threatened the stability of the state could be exiled by a practice involving voters writing that person's name down on a potsherd—a fragment of earthenware or pottery. Those receiving enough votes would then be subject to temporary exile from the state. Ostracize comes from the Greek verb ostrakízein (itself from the noun óstrakon meaning "potsherd"), used in 5th century Athens for the action of banishing someone by way of such a vote. Someone ostracized today is not exiled, but instead is excluded from a group by the agreement of the group's members.