5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (514+ words) Ambitious, lyrical and vast in scope, The Witches of Cambridge proves Alice Hoffman still has fresh spells to cast. The Witches of Cambridge It is not surprising that Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic (1995) and its sequels, would tackle another…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (34+ words) In these fantasy romances, couples fall in love during that most enduring of tropes: the quest. Add us as a Google Preferred Source See our latest list of the best titles of the month....

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, 4+ day ago   (37+ words) Language takes flight with the help of talented translators in The Butterfly Season, Tarantula and White Elephant. 3 brilliant books in translation for National Translation Month See our latest list of the best titles of the month....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (524+ words) In his dark, disarming and very funny The Castle, Jon Ronson ventures into the manosphere to investigate masculinity in crisis. Rudyard Kipling’s 1910 poem “If” gives some simple advice on becoming a man: “If you can keep your head when all…...

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   (971+ words) Plus, great new installments in the Cork O’Connor, Barker & Llewelyn and Billy Boyle series in this month’s Whodunit column. A historical, academia romance-mystery? Yes please! The temptation to compare William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor novels to the Leaphorn/Chee novels…...

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   (383+ words) A quietly impactful novel of community and personal growth, The Birthing Tree explores some of the same ground as Amanda Peters’ widely read 2023 debut, The Berry Pickers. Set in Nova Scotia, Amanda Peters’ second novel, The Birthing Tree, tells the…...