Elisabeth Cook

Elisabeth Cook is a book and cultural critic, a fiction writer, and the lead editor of The BookBrowse Review. She has written for Book Riot, Dorkaholics, The Spool, and other publications.

Covers of the February 2026 books Mass Mothering, Language as Liberation, Citizenship, The Renovation, Brawler, and I Am the Ghost Here on a deep yellow background.

Monthly Book Lists

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in February 2026

Our takes on six books forthcoming in February 2026, including novels, short story collections, and nonfiction.

Cover of The Unveiling on a light blue background. The jacket features an upside-down iceberg, the submerged part against a deep red gradient, the tip emerging into blue sky underneath.

Reviews

Review: Race and Realisms in Quan Barry’s The Unveiling

While reading Quan Barry’s new novel The Unveiling alongside Tiphanie Yanique's "On Character," I was struck by how it reflects Yanique's expansive approach to realism for authors of color, demonstrating a way to write fiction beyond the limits of the psychological.