A Day in “The Hole”: Risk, Loss, and Excess in Downtown Lima

Chaos and commerce thrive in the Peruvian capital.

Embers of the Hands

By Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands

The legendary pillagers led charmingly ordinary home lives.

Saints and Liars

By Debórah Dwork

Saints and Liars

An unsatisfying portrait of little-known WWII heroes.

The Good Daughters: A Novel

This tale of 1910s British suffragettes feels uncomfortably timely.

Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories

By Bora Chung; translated by Anton Hur

Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories

Researchers study the paranormal in a spooky Korean lab.

Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power

So patriarchy isn’t good for anybody’s bottom line?

The Scrapbook: A Novel

By Heather Clark

The Scrapbook: A Novel

Young lovers in the 1990s grapple with their grandparents’ actions in WWII.

Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore

The residents of Charm City’s Rosemont never stood a chance.