Nicholas Boggs’s Baldwin examines how James Baldwin’s intimate and artistic relationships—including his mentor Beauford Delaney, his partner Lucien Happersberger, and collaborators Engin Cezzar and Yoran Cazac—influenced his life and writing. Using archival material, the book traces how geographic, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic ties shaped Baldwin’s work and its place in Civil Rights and Black and queer literary history.

A Truce That Is Not Peace is a memoir in which Miriam Toews reflects on her sister’s suicide and the ways memory, language, and humor shape a life. Through short, inventive pieces she wrestles with grief, guilt, and the question of why artists write, offering an intimate, unsentimental exploration of loss without revealing plot details.

The Wilderness follows five Black women over twenty years as they navigate the uncertain period between young adulthood and midlife. Sisters Desiree and Danielle are estranged, January is ambivalent about a relationship after a surprise pregnancy, Monique is a librarian who gains online attention after confronting her university, and Nakia tries to launch a restaurant without relying on her family. Set from the late 2000s into the late 2020s, the novel examines friendship, family, and home amid political, economic, and environmental instability.

A Flower Traveled in My Blood follows the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and one family’s search for a grandchild taken during Argentina’s 1976–1983 dictatorship. Centering on Rosa and her daughter Patricia—a pregnant activist who was disappeared—the book chronicles how the grandmothers investigate, confront officials, and help pioneer genetic tools to identify stolen children. It is a tightly reported, compassionate account of loss, resilience, and the fight to reclaim identity and justice.

After a summer night on a breakwater, ten-year-old Louisa is found near‑death and her father, Serk, has vanished. The novel follows Louisa and her mother Anne as they cope with his absence, unravel family secrets tied to Serk’s Korean‑Japanese past and Anne’s strained American roots, and confront the unsettling return of Tobias, Anne’s previously unknown son. Told in shifting perspectives across decades and countries, Flashlight explores memory, identity, and how a single mysterious event reshapes a family.

Set in 1932, Shadow Ticket follows Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private investigator hired to find a runaway heiress. What begins as a routine missing-person case becomes an international, often comic, odyssey—across an ocean and into Europe—dragging Hicks into political intrigue, criminal elements, swing‑era nightlife and eccentric characters as he tries to find the woman and make his way back home.

Brother Diaz arrives at the Sacred City expecting praise, but is instead put in charge of a dangerous flock of killers, dark sorcerers and monsters. Sent on a brutal mission that will force ruthless choices, he must navigate corrupt princes, hostile forces at the borders, and a hellish journey where unlikely, unholy allies could be his only chance.

On Black Sunday, a massive dust storm descends on the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. The story follows a group of residents—a “Prairie Witch” whose body stores other people’s memories, a Polish wheat farmer, his orphan niece who is a basketball player and witch’s apprentice, a talkative scarecrow, and a New Deal photographer with a time-traveling camera—as their secrets, losses, and the town’s past come to light. The novel blends folklore and magical realism with the harsh realities of the Dust Bowl and its human and environmental toll.

Ambitious graduate student Alice Law descends into Hell to rescue her mentor, Professor Jacob Grimes, after a fatal magical accident. Paired unwillingly with her rival Peter Murdoch, they must navigate a perilous underworld guided by myth and their own limited spells, facing dangers and secrets from their pasts. A dark academia fantasy about ambition, rivalry, and the costs of pursuing knowledge.

In 1998 Austin, sixteen-year-old Nathaniel finds confidence at a neighborhood boxing gym before he vanishes. Years later his uncle Bob reopens the case, bringing him into contact with Charles (“X”), a teenager wrestling with identity, and a cast of fighters, a rookie cop, and a young immigrant with a false identity. The novel tracks their intersecting lives—about identity, belonging, and masculinity—building toward a tense confrontation in the ring.

We the People argues that the practice of amending the U.S. Constitution is central to American democracy. Jill Lepore challenges the idea that the Constitution is a fixed document or that interpretation should be left solely to the Supreme Court, showing that the framers expected future generations to tinker with and improve the nation’s governing framework. The book traces generations of Americans who sought constitutional reforms—from proposals to change the Electoral College to campaigns for new rights—framing amendment as a democratic tool for repairing and renewing government.

There Is No Place for Us follows five Atlanta families who work but struggle to keep a roof over their heads as rising rents, low wages, and gentrification push them into cars, motels, and other precarious housing. Through intimate, narrative reporting, Brian Goldstone traces how these parents and children manage jobs, school, and daily life while facing displacement, highlighting a broader “working homeless” crisis often hidden from official counts. The book outlines the causes and human consequences of this trend and raises questions about access to stable housing.

Murderland investigates the surge of serial killings in the Pacific Northwest during the 1970s and 1980s, profiling figures such as Ted Bundy and other notorious perpetrators. The book examines how social forces and regional industrial pollution—notably smelter emissions—may have intersected with those crimes, offering a historical, spoiler-free look at violence in that landscape.

Orphaned and dispossessed, Marguerite is taken by her unpredictable guardian to New France. After a forbidden relationship is discovered, she and her companion are punished and left on a remote island, where she must endure harsh elements, confront dwindling hope, and find the inner strength and faith needed to survive.

Sybil Van Antwerp spends her days composing letters—to friends, public figures, and to one person she never sends them—using writing to order her thoughts and life. When letters from her past resurface, they force her to confront a long‑buried pain and consider whether she can find forgiveness and move forward.

Girl on Girl looks at how late-1990s and early-2000s pop culture—from music videos and fashion to tabloids and the early internet—fostered sexualization, competition, and hostility toward women. Through close cultural analysis, the book traces how these trends normalized objectification and left lasting effects on how women are seen and treated.

After her partner’s sudden death, a writer is left grappling with practical demands and little space to grieve. She later retreats to a remote Australian island to mourn, reflect on mourning practices from other cultures, and search for rituals and ways to rebuild a life around the absence. The memoir is an intimate, spare exploration of love, loss, and the work of grieving.

An Oral History of Atlantis is a short-story collection of sixteen inventive, deadpan tales that blur reality and performance while probing memory, identity, and the transitory nature of youth and art. Through witty, often surreal vignettes—from a college actor whose role begins to overtake him to a man confronting his life through forgotten passwords—Ed Park illuminates how ordinary, absurd moments become unexpectedly meaningful.

Dark Renaissance traces Christopher Marlowe’s rise from a humble background to become a provocative Elizabethan dramatist whose bold poetry and plays challenged religious, political, and moral conventions. The book examines his ties to the queen’s intelligence service and the intellectual circles around him, showing how his daring imagination and skepticism helped reshape English literature, language, and culture without revealing plot details.

Kōrero, a young girl from a remote Tongan island, is chosen to save her people and undertakes a perilous seafaring journey across the Tu’i Tonga maritime empire. The novel follows her rise to leadership and explores cultural survival, ecological strain, and personal discovery without revealing key plot twists.

In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment after World War II creates a secret that binds two families and reverberates across generations. The story follows a woman who can conjure the dead, a husband serving at sea, and their children as the hidden past reshapes identities, relationships, and the town’s future.

Set in the middle years of the American Revolution, The Fate of the Day follows George Washington and the Continental Army as they struggle with shortages, harsh winters, and the pressures of sustained war while diplomats like Benjamin Franklin work to secure foreign aid. It covers major campaigns and battles—including Brandywine, Saratoga, and Charleston—and the winter at Valley Forge, highlighting the military, political, and diplomatic challenges of the conflict. The narrative focuses on leadership, sacrifice, and the hardships involved in forging a new nation.

When experienced hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes on the Appalachian Trail in Maine, game warden Beverly leads a ground search while Valerie, stranded in the woods, writes fragmented letters to her mother. From a Connecticut retirement community, seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher Lena follows the mystery from afar as clues raise questions about whether Valerie’s disappearance was accidental.

Journalist Julia Ioffe explores modern Russia through the lives of its women. Drawing on her own return to Moscow and on stories from revolutionary feminists, wartime fighters, single mothers, and contemporary activists, she traces how women's roles shifted from Soviet-era professionals to post‑Soviet expectations of domesticity and how those social changes relate to broader political developments. Part memoir, part reportage and history, the book uses personal and historical vignettes to illuminate Russia’s recent transformations without revealing its outcomes.

Ruth follows a woman raised in a closed Christian commune where daily rituals and communal rules shape every aspect of life. As she moves through childhood, marriage, and motherhood, her growing curiosity and doubts about the community’s beliefs force her to reckon with obedience, identity, and what it means to belong.