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 here at the Independent love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are January’s winners.
Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons around the World
By Baz Dreisinger
Taking a hard look at the U.S. and other countries' ill-conceived embrace of confinement.
The Restaurant Critic’s Wife: A Novel
By Elizabeth LaBan
What happens when your spouse’s need to go incognito makes you invisible, too?
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: A Novel
By Jackie Copleton
The burden of guilt hangs heavily in this tale of a Japanese woman struggling to rebuild her life post-Nagasaki.
The Loss of All Lost Things
By Amina Gautier
A masterful collection of stirring, deceptively simple tales.
What do book lovers have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked a couple of them, and here’s what they said.
The Golden Son: A Novel
By Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Torn between loyalty to tradition and the desire to follow their hearts, childhood friends contemplate the cost of their adult decisions.
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