Magic Can’t Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

These sweet, silly offerings read like fairytale postscripts.

In a Yellow Wood: Selected Stories and Essays

An outstanding introduction to the master’s body of work.

Is a River Alive?

By Robert Macfarlane

Is a River Alive?

A poetic yet serious consideration of waterways and us.

Authority: Essays

By Andrea Long Chu

Authority: Essays

An extraordinary treatise on what it means to be critical.

Shake It Up, Baby!

Another not-necessarily-necessary addition to the Fab canon.

Cunning Folk

By Tabitha Stanmore

Cunning Folk

When spells — and the fear of them — reigned supreme.

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945

This conclusion to a trilogy is richly detailed, if light on drama.

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

A deeply personal quest to understand mixed-race identity.