New collections to make life more lyrical.
The Jinn Daughter: A Novel
By Rania Hanna
A mother maneuvers the realm of death to save her daughter in this overly ambitious debut.
Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History
By Margaret Juhae Lee
An American woman untangles her Korean family’s past.
How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
By Talmage Boston
What can we learn from our ablest commanders-in-chief?
The Mars House: A Novel
By Natasha Pulley
This queer, outer-space romance speaks to the human condition here on Earth.
A recent biography reveals James Ellroy to be every bit as over-the-top as his hardboiled detectives.
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
By Oskar Jensen
Britain’s benighted scalawags had more agency than you thought.
Look what’s happening at the 2024 Washington Writers Conference!
The Extinction of Irena Rey: A Novel
By Jennifer Croft
Translators attempt to find a missing author — and their own senses of self.
The novelist talks hero journeys, Hopi myth, and ayahuasca’s role in self-discovery.
