Arundhati Roy’s love-hate relationship with her dramatic, domineering, visionary mother is at the center of her fabulous memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. ... Read full Story
Startlingly empathetic and deeply strange, Bitter Karella’s psychedelic horror novel Moonflow will fill the reader with both wonder and disgust on every page. ... Read full Story
Architectural Digest’s luxe AD at Home lets readers look inside the domestic lives of some of the world’s most glamorous celebrities. Think of it as an almanac for aspirational living. ... Read full Story
Hot Desk is a romp through post-COVID-19 New York’s literary scene, pitting two young, ambitious book editors against unseen foes and questions of legacy. ... Read full Story
Native writers from across North America continue to provide us with enlightening, entertaining books across genres. Celebrate Native American Heritage month with these great reads! ... Read full Story
Formally inventive and exquisitely executed, A Truce That Is Not Peace sees Miriam Toews perform an unforgettable exhumation of grief. ... Read full Story
In her moving memoir, Destroy This House, Amanda Uhle chronicles the exploits of her parents: a pair of lying grifters who nonetheless loved her. ... Read full Story
Narrated in Caitlin Kinnunen’s convincing tween timbre, Caroline Starr Rose’s novel-in-verse, The Burning Season, offers a brief but intense listening experience. ... Read full Story
In this companion to The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride shows us imperfect people who are nevertheless both courageous and vulnerable. ... Read full Story
These books allow us to celebrate, consider and explore Latinx heritage through fiction, history, recipes and more. Que vivan los libros! ... Read full Story
This Place Kills Me is a graphic novel that can be enjoyed on lots of different levels, providing suspense and satisfaction on every one. ... Read full Story
Alejandro Varela’s funny, perceptive literary love story poses uncomfortable and universal questions about the nature of relationships and how best to navigate them. ... Read full Story
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.