Scribe by Alyson Hagy
★★★★☆ Alyson Hagy’s Scribe is a strange creature, a mutant hybrid of dystopian fiction and fireside lore. In a land ravaged by disease and strife, one woman survives by trading her ability to write...
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Boomer1 by Daniel Torday
★★★★☆ Sure, every generation despises the cultural values of the generation that rises to replace it. If you’re 50, scientific laws guarantee that music popular among contemporary 15-year-olds will sound awful to you. In...
The Next Person You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
★★★☆☆ Mitch Albom’s The Next Person You Meet in Heaven is his fifteen-years-later sequel to The Five People You Meet In Heaven, which follows in its predecessor’s path tightly. It embraces the original’s structure...
The Witch Elm by Tana French
★★★★☆ ‘Tis a grand day when Irish writer Tana French releases a new novel into the world! The Witch Elm is her first standalone story after five brilliant Dublin Murder Squad mysteries. She just...
Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
★★★☆☆ Former president of Ireland and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change Mary Robinson has compiled a solid new addition to the arsenal of tools with which to discuss the world’s encroaching climate troubles....
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
★★★★★ Susan Orlean’s latest book is a warm, intelligent read you should curl up with in your favorite reading nook — possibly at the library — if you want to feel better about the...
The Forbidden Place by Susanne Jansson
★★★★☆ A book, television show, or movie set somewhere in Scandinavia leads the reader or viewer to expect dark, foreboding landscapes and ominous, threatening events. Susanne Jansson’s sparkling debut novel The Forbidden Place fulfills...
Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago
★★★★☆ “Ero Guro Nansensu” is a slippery categorization: originally coined in the 1930s to describe a particularly decadent movement in Japanese art and literature, it has since seeped outside its borders into increasingly ribald...
American Journal: Fifty Poems of Our Time, selected by Tracy K. Smith
★★★☆☆ Poetry exists in the ears of the beholder. Sound—listened to out loud or internally—grabs one first. As the words wrap into our consciousness, we begin to feel their depth and value. We move...
