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WEAK IN COMPARISON TO DREAMS“Is there a difference between dreams and waking life?” wonders Samuel Emmer, the narrator of Elkins’ novel, an expert in protozoa who works in...
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KINDERLAND“Every village in Moldova is a village of children, the entire country,” confides Cristina Dumitrache, who's been left in charge of her...
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TIRED OF WINNING“I am your retribution,” Trump promised his followers in a recent speech, since elaborated on with threats to root out “junkies, Marxists,...
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JOHNNY CASHJohn R. Cash (1932-2003) was born in rural Arkansas in the depths of the Depression. The child of poor sharecroppers, he was also the grandson...
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WRONG WAY“This could be a good job,” Teresa thinks aboard the shuttle bus taking her and 50 fellow trainees from Boston’s South Station to the gleaming...
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THE NEW NATURALSBump’s second novel—following Everywhere You Don’t Belong (2020)—centers on a pair of young academics, Rio and Gibraltar, whose plans as...
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THE LAST REFUGESixteen-year-old Kiera Vandyer’s mother endured years of poverty and despotism to keep her daughter safe, but when the young woman takes a bold...
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FINNEY AND THE SECRET TUNNELTwelve-year-old Finney Brown doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. Her teachers often reprimand her for being fidgety and distracted, even though she...
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THE PRICE OF THORNSWhen the reader first meets Nivali al Tamsin (“Nivvy”), he’s tied to a large wheel in the nowhere-town of Plow. Nivvy is a thief. To really reap...
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FLIGHT OF THE WASPThe first people to purchase enslaved Africans in Virginia were WASPs, but they were also among the first to launch coordinated abolitionist...
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THE HELSINKI AFFAIRAmanda Cole is dying of boredom at the sleepy Rome bureau of the CIA when a tip comes in from a Russian bureaucrat on vacation—an American...
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NOW IT SEEMS THAT I'M NOT HERE AT ALLSweets are everywhere in Burns’ new collection of short stories, her third. In the opener, “The Affair,” a woman on an apple-picking trip with...
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V IS FOR VICTORINEIt’s 1915, and about a year has passed since 13-year-old white heiress Victorine Berryman vanished, assumed a new identity, and became a member...
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KEEPING MY DRACPrincess Ophelia keeps her regular rendezvouses with Arik a secret. As a drac, Arik can easily shift between human and dragon forms. He’s also...
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FLAME & SHADOWEnvy Starr, the daughter of a daemon and a Las Vegas showgirl, is 20 years old—and she only has until midsummer before she either explodes (due...
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A SEASON IN DELHIMarried Manhattanites Brant and Lloyd have temporarily moved to Delhi for Lloyd’s work. They should be having the time of their lives in the...
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CHOP THAT SH*T UP!Pinion hails from an impressive lineage of military service—his grandfather Frank Richards fought in World War II. Unsure what to do following...
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RUTHLESS SKYIt’s 1989, and five hours after the space shuttle Intrepid has begun its milestone mission to deploy Odysseus , a billion-dollar solar probe,...
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TEA WITH AN OLD GIANTOn top of a rocky hill, a nameless giant with lightly tanned skin and a white beard and hair leads a solitary life. Although he’s chosen to live...
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HOW YOUR GUITAR WORKSThe author doesn’t just want to impart the knowledge necessary to construct a well-playing guitar from scratch; Foley aims at a far grander...
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THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOWIt’s 1992, and 28-year-old Noah Meier is just keeping his head above water in his first year at a Seattle hospital. For a medical intern, it’s a...
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A BOOK OF NOISESAn inelegant, if precise, title does little justice to a book packed with inestimable beauties, piquant facts, cacophonous din, startling...
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MY MISCHIEVOUS WHEELCHAIRGrace is a little girl with pale skin and brown hair who wears a heart-shaped pendant necklace. After she works hard on her schoolwork to be...
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THE BRONTËS OF HAWORTH MOORThe six Brontë children—Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne—weren’t permitted to play with the local children but found...
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SAIL ME AWAY HOMEIt’s 1810 and Mary, a deaf white teenage girl, is the teacher in her village on Martha’s Vineyard. In her world, deaf and hearing people live...
