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New This Week

  • The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
    Liza Tully
    Published 7/8/25

    A great detective's young assistant yearns for glory, but first they have learn to get along in this delightful feel good mystery.
  • Bring the House Down
    Charlotte Runcie
    Published 7/8/25

    A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with in this sharply funny, feminist ...
  • Slanting Towards the Sea
    Lidija Hilje
    Published 7/8/25

    Spanning across twenty years and one life-altering summer in Croatia, Slanting Towards the Sea is at once an unforgettable love story and a powerful exploration of what it ...

Publishing Soon

  • A Blacklist Education
    Jane S. Smith
    Published 7/15/25

    In A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s.
  • Ashes to Ashes
    Thomas Maltman
    Published 7/15/25

    Small-town Minnesota teenager Basil "The Brute" Thorson—a shy, reluctant wrestling star and "special" tracked into special education classes—vows to make his ...
  • House of Frost and Feathers
    Lauren Wiesebron
    Published 7/15/25

    A touch of The Bear and the Nightingale, a bit of Juniper & Thorn, and a sense of wonder and adventure makes up this lyrical debut fantasy of a young woman in ...

First Impressions: Readers Recommend

  • The Whyte Python World Tour
    Travis Kennedy
    Published 6/24/25

    Rikki Thunder, drummer for hot new '80s metal band Whyte Python, is about to get it all: global fame...a dream girlfriend—and an unwitting role as an international spy.
  • Angelica
    Molly Beer
    Published 7/1/25

    A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton's influential sister-in-law.
  • The Original
    Nell Stevens
    Published 7/1/25

    In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.

Latest "Beyond the Book" Articles

  • The Sociological Work of Pierre Bourdieu
    Beyond the book article for Change
    In addition to being a novelist, Édouard Louis, author of Change, is a scholar of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Louis's scholarly work has explicitly informed his novels, which are about the violence and indignity of poverty, the racism and homophobia of his working-class childhood, ...
  • Miranda July: The Essential Works
    Beyond the book article for All Fours
    Miranda July is an artist who works successfully in multiple mediums, perhaps equally well-known for her films and her fiction. Born in 1974 in Barre, Vermont, and raised in Berkeley, California, July dropped out of college in her early twenties and moved to Portland, Oregon, where she began ...
  • Chernozem: The National Soil of Ukraine
    Beyond the book article for Endling
    In Endling, Maria Reva centers Ukrainian identity, whether her focus is on romance tours or the snail conservation efforts of one of the central 'brides' named Yeva. Through Yeva's work, we learn about the topography and life forms that shape Ukraine. One detail that stuck with me was the discussion...

New in Hardcover

  • Hot Girls with Balls
    Benedict Nguyen
    Published 7/1/25

    In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams' first ...
  • The Original
    Nell Stevens
    Published 7/1/25

    In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.
  • The Compound
    Aisling Rawle
    Published 6/24/25

    Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.

New in Paperback

  • Creation Lake
    Rachel Kushner
    Published 7/1/25

    From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most gifted authors of her generation" (The New York Times Book Review), ...
  • There Are Rivers in the Sky
    Elif Shafak
    Published 7/1/25

    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end ...
  • There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
    Ruben Reyes
    Published 7/1/25

    An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

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