In her fourth novel, Khadivi asks, what does one do with these questions we can no longer ask, hidden stories that can never be unraveled, which the dead have taken with them to their graves?
It's September and book award season rolls on. We recommend seven new books coming out this month, plus one celebrity memoir from 1994.
Can you really combine two finished, flour-based products using only heat? If Jo in Nunez's "Mother-Daughter Story" is skeptical of the concept of the crookie to begin with, we were skeptical of the feat she performs with the toaster oven, though impressed by her confidence.
With The Book of Chuck, Watkins cements her place as an essential storyteller of Black life in America and one of Toni Morrison’s heir apparents.
The Great Wherever centers the pleasures of reading and stories, the pleasures that family and community can create and preserve, and the ordinary, apparently forever-tempting pleasures of messy human drama and gossip.
We have great taste and you should subscribe to Who Even Reads to discover the Next Big Thing before the Booker people get their grubby hands all over everything. Here are the Books We Like the Looks Of coming out this August.
How can one live like this, Triage asks, at the same time it declares the question beside the point. What is the alternative?
Balasingamchow’s novel speaks to realities of queerness, marginalization, criminality and criminalization, of what not being able to live openly or straightforwardly does to a person and perhaps can’t be—or doesn’t need to be—undone.
This month, in the midst of deodorant-testing heat and confused displays of patriotism, we bring you an all-fiction batch of July books, including Colson Whitehead's appealingly named Cool Machine.
This June, we celebrate Pride with contemporary books by QTBIPOC, including those with identities beyond Western conceptions of queerness. They are transformative, culture-shifting forces, capable of making and unmaking worlds.
Every detail and plot turn in Sublimation is clearly part of a meticulously well-considered arc. I’m very curious what the adaptation will be like. Whitewashing would be a disaster in this scenario, given the significance of instancing as metaphor for diaspora.
This month's upcoming books include several debuts, including an enticing fable that draws from Minnesota's racial history, a nonlinear story of queer rural Florida, and a television-ready immigration narrative (at least one).