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July 16, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this, our second retrospective issue of the year, we revel in the past with special coverage of work ranging from the 1930s to the early 2000s.

Join us in exploring the long publication journey of Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Zora Neale Hurston's classic story of one woman's search for love and happiness. We also feature Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (1996), based on the life of alleged killer Grace Marks; Percival Everett's Erasure (2001), adapted for film as more

July 02, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

Still need more fiction for your summer TBR? This issue will fix that. We cover Taylor Jenkins Reid's Atmosphere, bringing to life the early days of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and Susan Choi's Flashlight, which mixes contemporary and historical timelines between the United States, Japan, and Korea. Dennard Dayle's How to Dodge a Cannonball, another ambitious novel that takes on aspects of American history, is a soberingly hilarious satire featuring a scrappy,more

June 18, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we're pleased to bring you recent fiction gems, including standout debuts. Maria Reva's Endling offers a unique perspective on the war in Ukraine, combining the novel she was working on during the Russian invasion with her response to it. Our accompanying Beyond the Book article covers chernozem, the country's all-important and particularly fertile soil. Lucas Schaefer's ambitious The Slip follows the disappearance of a teenager in Texas, reflects on the broadmore

June 04, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

This wedding season and Pride Month, we bring you When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris, an emotional contemporary story of marriage, queer identity, and childhood trauma. We also review The Dry Season by Melissa Febos, a reflective memoir about self-love, pleasure, and nurturing an artistic life that recounts a year-long experiment with celibacy.

We cover several additional titles in this issue that significantly feature love or longing, accompanied by literary "more

May 21, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we feature two standout debut memoirs. This Is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson paints a picture of the author's late mother Sallie Carol, whose larger-than-life presence is rendered in a playful and multifaceted narrative. The True Happiness Company tells Veena Dinavahi's story of being swept into a self-help cult as a teenager, when she suffered from persistent depression and the group seemed to promise a brighter future.

Candace Fleming's Death in themore

May 07, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we cover fiction featuring various ages and stages of life. Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness, set in a Connecticut town of colorful characters, focuses on the unlikely bond between a 19-year-old boy from a Vietnamese immigrant family and an 82-year-old Lithuanian refugee, while Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis drops the reader into the mind of a middle-aged Mohawk man who returns to the reservation of his childhood to deal with a life-threateningmore

April 23, 2025

Dear BookBrowsers,

In this issue, we bring you a fresh batch of historical fiction of many flavors, ranging from the weird and wonderful to the delectably detailed to the story drawn from tantalizingly little-known facts. And don't worry, we have some top-notch contemporary novels coming your way, too.

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's The Creation of Half-Broken People, published as a paperback original, tells a strange tale of colonialism in Zimbabwe through historical women who appear to an unnamedmore

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