A baker’s dozen promising new titles.
Questions 27 & 28: A Novel
By Karen Tei Yamashita
The fallout from Japanese internment camps ripples across decades.
To See Beyond: Essays
By Anna Badkhen
An expansive consideration of who we are and what we stand to lose.
We Love You, Charlie Freeman
By Kaitlyn Greenidge
This debut novel tackles risky terrain: race, language, identity — and chimpanzees
The editor of Women Crime Writers discusses sexism, how crime novels have evolved, and the fact that women dominate bestseller lists but continue to be underrepresented by book reviewers.
Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I
By Mitchell Yockelson
Recalling a seminal battle — and the actions of a famed American general — during the Great War.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Under the Influence
By Joyce Maynard
An enjoyable, if somewhat implausible, beach read about bad friends and tough choices
And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories
By Yossel Birstein; translated by Margaret Birstein, Hana Inbar, and Robert Manaster
Spare tales of fascinating, fleeting encounters.
Meet one of the renowned participants in Books Alive! 2016
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