If there’s one thing we can all agree on this year, it’s that sweatpants are pretty great. Maybe we didn’t appreciate them enough pre-pandemic. Maybe we had an old pair from college, tucked away for years, that we now realize…
“There’s just something about being in a place where what matters most is right in front of you.” That’s one of my favorite lines from KJ Dell’Antonia’s warm, funny, and enveloping novel, The Chicken Sisters. It’s something we all need…
A steampunk Star Wars meets Romeo and Juliet, The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira is set on warring planets and propelled by a prophesy, a love story, and a series of power plays from which not every character will emerge unscathed….
A Star is Bored is fiction. It really is. But it’s also inspired by author Byron Lane’s years as personal assistant to Carrie Fisher, and there’s something uniquely delightful about getting to go on this ride knowing that the essence…
Anna Solomon’s The Book of V. is a marvel. It’s both expansive and tightly woven, intensely intimate and shared. It braids the individual stories of three women—Lily in 2016 Brooklyn, Vee in Watergate-era Washington D.C., and Esther in ancient Persia—into a…
In The Regrets, the charmingly spooky Valentine of a novel by Amy Bonnaffons, Thomas and Rachel are lost souls who find each other at a Brooklyn bus stop and ignite a passionate affair. It’s your evergreen tale of star-crossed lovers—you…