New Books

Can you recommend a book that makes you deeply sad about humanity, circa 2026? After Barragán, a young journalist in Madrid, learned his dentist mom had been scammed by a Nigerian romance con artist,... (Tom)

Can you be nostalgic for a past that's not yours? Stealth is saturated with the sensations and physical details of Cairo in the 1940s, in the lower-middle-class apartments and streets through which th... (Tom)

Why just eat a slice of watermelon on a hot summer day when you could swim in a giant watermelon pool? This quirky and imaginative picture book was a huge Korean hit and is now available for the first... (Haley)

"Secrets and desires are at the heart of our selfhood, and no one can be your best friend if you don’t let them see who you are." Girl's Girl so perfectly and evocatively captures the emotional highs... (Anika)

Kanakia has quickly drawn many readers to her newsletter—me included—with two rare skills: an ability to consume vast quantities of literature (for a fascinating recent essay on New Yorker fiction she... (Tom)

If you know that Harriet Clark is the daughter of Judy Clark, a former Weather Underground founder given a life sentence for her role in a murderous armored-car robbery, you might expect that her firs... (Tom)

Russell is eight years old: small, stubborn, resourceful, and a flirt with waitresses five times his age. He's also so terrified of his cruel older brother that he wanders the aisles of Fred Meyer at... (Tom)

This book could use a second trigger warning. The first was on the back flap of my copy where I read that a “sexual assault” sets the plot in motion. A more useful one might be, “Assumptions and expec... (Liz)

Nobody likes a tattletale. Rat, fink, snitch: the names say it all. Ask any whistleblower: it's a thankless role, even though the actors who play them get Oscar nominations. Frank Serpico, and Peter M... (Tom)

From The Borrowers to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, it's fun to imagine what it would be like to experience the world as a tiny creature. 102 joins the tradition of shrinking down its protagonist in a cre... (Haley)