by Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island captures the reader's imagination with a bold rendering of accelerated climate change and migration. It follows on the heels of the author's nonfiction work, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, in which he challenged fiction writers to confront the greatest existential threat to mankind. Ghosh rises to the summons himself by crafting a surreal, fantastical story of displacement caused by extreme weather.
Deen is an Indian American rare books dealer dividing
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by John Mauceri
Classical music can be a divisive genre--some people love it, others dislike it, still more are intimidated by it. But no matter what one's relationship to classical might be, this meditation on the genre by esteemed conductor John Mauceri (Maestros and Their Music) is sure to give all readers a new, or deeper, insight into what they are listening to when they listen to a piece of music.
Despite the title, For the Love of Music isn't really a how-to, and instead peels back the decades and the histories and
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by Joowon Oh
Papa is an elderly creature of habit: every day begins with a cup of tea, tending to his plants, tidying up and getting dressed to ride the bus into town. His regular walk takes him by familiar stores and lands him at the same restaurant for his "usual" lunch of dumplings before he makes his return homeward. Thursdays, however--although they start the same, with tea, plants, town--are different: he shops at the craft store and takes his double order of dumplings to go. Back at home, the ecstatic cry of "Papa!"
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