6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (301+ words) Meg Mason’s vivid Sophie, Standing There is a tribute to literature, relationships and the power of owning one’s experiences. Things aren’t going well for Sophie. Her husband has unceremoniously kicked her out: While she was in the shower, he announced…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (651+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source This is a book about siblings, as is Cooch Helped. How have your own experiences with siblings affected your writing—as well as your worldview? I have a younger sister and brother that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (416+ words) A ruthless fae enforcer and an irrepressible changeling go on a quest and fall in love in Ann Aguirre’s irresistible, delightfully executed The Hocus Pocus Handbook. The Hocus Pocus Handbook When Thea de Winter ruins a pivotal festival by freeing…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (347+ words) With empathy and creativity, Mothersucker fuses the horror of the supernatural with the all-too-real horror of misogynistic violence. Every new vampire novel is a reason to celebrate, and Kim Bohyun’s Mothersucker, translated from Korean by Archana Madhavan, is a punchy,…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (230+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source The Disappearers is a masterfully crafted book, but make no mistake: It is, at times, a harrowing read. And yet, like my conversation with its author, I found it difficult to walk away…...