30 Books

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) We know a great deal about William Shakespeare’s literary works, but next to nothing about his personal life. Maggie O’Farrell embraces that blank canvas and

Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer (One World) Visual artist Riva Lehrer comes to memoir writing in her seventh decade after an illustrious career as a painter best known for grappling

here is the sweet hand by francine j. harris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) francine j. harris’ gorgeous and profound here is the sweet hand is a gentle caress, a gut

If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan (W.W. Norton) In Randall Kenan’s radiant story collection, If I Had Two Wings, residents in the fictional town of Tims Creek, North

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press) Grieving begins with a description of tortured bodies hanging from a bridge. It

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World) “In the popular imagination,” writes Korean American Cathy Park Hong, poetry editor of The New Republic and author

It starts with a woman who has been killed—along with her children—by her husband. There is the inability of some of her surviving family to speak of it; the need,

“To praise this, blame that, / Leads one subtly away from the beginning, where / We must stay, in motion.” This quote from John Ashbery’s “Houseboat Days” anchors Teare’s latest

A number of novels have come out in recent years with a promise of having something to say about the American interior, whether through stories of opioid addiction, combat veterans,