Matrix, Lauren Groff
Pandemics recur in her stories, as do natural landscapes ravaged by climate change, as do women who are quietly incandescent with rage. –The Atlantic
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The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
In The Island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, memory and … Read more
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
Rooney is back with another bookish, epistolary novel — this time following two intelligent young adults navigating their personal lives amid the backdrop of environmental … Read more
Harrow, Joy Williams
In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape … Read more
Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman
Set in a darkly unsettling near-future Hollywood, a novelist trying to fix his troubled marriage reckons with connectedness, ambition, and corruption in the age of … Read more
Wizard of the Crow, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Commencing in “our times” and set in the “Free Republic of Aburĩria,” the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for … Read more
The High House, Jessie Greengrass
The water is rising around a coastal hideaway in which five people, including a small child, are trapped, as civilisation is engulfed by flood. –The Spectator … Read more
Bewilderment, Richard Powers
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, a powerful new novel that asks an essential question: What are we doing to our children? They … Read more
Redder Days, Sue Rainsford
…One wonders if there wasn’t something in the air over the past few years that contributed to Redder Days’ sense of foreboding. Certainly, given the … Read more
Popisho, Leone Ross
A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was born … Read more
Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
From bestselling author Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves is a novel about a scientist reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands, and the secrets that … Read more
Crow Winter, Karen McBride
Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he’s here to help … Read more
The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma
In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers take advantage of their strict father’s absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden … Read more
Indie Corner – Anne Coray
Back to the Indie Corner series I’m thrilled to introduce author Anne Coray to the Indie Corner spotlight. As a lifelong Alaskan, place has always … Read more
High as the Waters Rise, Anja Kampmann
German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into … Read more