“The Revolutionary Temper,” “A City on Mars,” “The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild,” and “Behind You Is the Sea.” Source link Read more »
You Dreamed of Empires, by Álvaro Enrigue, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer (Riverhead). This incantatory novel takes place in 1519, on the day when Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors arrived... Read more »
From Michael Rosen’s joyous ode to chocolate cake to the sumptuous, soporific picnics in the Brambly Hedge series, delicious feasts abound in books for young children. For her moreish debut, Dim Sum... Read more »
Poor Deer, by Claire Oshetsky (Ecco). This novel follows a sixteen-year-old-girl named Margaret and her attempts to reckon with the death of her best friend in childhood, for which she was partly... Read more »
Forgottenness, by Tanja Maljartschuk, translated from the Ukrainian by Zenia Tompkins (Liveright). This thoughtful novel connects two characters separated by a century: a present-day Ukrainian writer and the twentieth-century Polish Ukrainian nationalist... Read more »
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, by Gregg Hecimovich (Ecco). In 2002, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., published an annotated edition of “The Bondswoman’s Narrative,” a novel thought to be the first... Read more »
Holler, Child, by LaToya Watkins (Tiny Reparations). In this début short-story collection, a varied group of voices—male and female, young and old, parent and child—grapple with profound disruptions, from infidelity to illness.... Read more »
“Prophet Song,” “How to Build a Boat,” “The Money Kings,” and “About Ed.” Source link Read more »
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Titan, £9.99)Set in 1950 in segregated Florida, and inspired, like Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys, by the violent abuse and deaths of Black children sent to the... Read more »