by Ross Gay
If the subject matter of his books is any indication, poet Ross Gay has a single-minded focus: making the world a better place. Following on his bestselling 2019 collection, The Book of Delights, Gay returns with Inciting Joy: Essays, a collection of 14 energetic reflections that investigate how to "make joy more available to us" and "how joy makes us act and feel."
In the service of this goal, Inciting Joy surveys an assortment of topics drawn from Gay's own experience that display his
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by Dean Rickles
Dean Rickles is a professor of history and philosophy of modern physics at the University of Sydney in Australia. He's written many profound and enlightening books about the scientific philosophies of quantum gravity, physics, string theory and more. In Life Is Short, he merges his passions to deliver a deeply engaging and thought-provoking study of life and how its finite nature serves hidden depths that can lead to a much more rewarding and fulfilling existence.
People chronically compare their lives to
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by Malinda Lo
Malinda Lo follows up her 2021 National Book Award-winning YA novel, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, with the companion novel, A Scatter of Light, which takes place in 2013 and tells the powerful story of one young woman's life-changing summer of self-discovery.
Eighteen-year-old, half-Asian Aria Tang West was supposed to spend her final summer before college "on Martha's Vineyard with my friends, not in the remote woods [of California] with my grandmother." She expects a few forgettable months, until she
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by Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carrière et al.
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) and Coco Chanel may have been rivals in the field of 20th-century couture, but one of the ways the former distinguished herself was by incorporating surrealist elements into her work. This is hammered home in the illuminating and grand Shocking: The Surreal World of Elsa Schiaparelli, whose contributors take the position that the Italian designer should assume a place among the surrealist artists of her time.
The book--a companion to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs,
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by Amanda Glaze
Jam-packed with sisterly love, 19th-century Spiritualism, romance, mystery and nascent feminism, The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond is a delicious historic novel for 21st-century book lovers of all stripes.
Seventeen-year-old twins Edie and Violet have inherited their mother's gift of channeling spirits (Violet) and crossing the threshold between life and death (Edie). When their mother dies under mysterious circumstances, the young women run away from their minister father who plans to commit them to
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by Max Hastings
In The Abyss, popular historian Max Hastings (Operation Pedestal; Operation Chastise; Vietnam) delivers a magisterial re-evaluation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis for general readers and a "new generation... outside the defense and academic communities." Hastings, contextualizing the geopolitical situation in 1962 as it existed for the U.S., the Soviet Union and Cuba, addresses one of the main points about the crisis that is often "missed": it was always a "political issue, not a strategic one."
After President
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by Jeffrey Ebbeler
I'm Ogre It is a hilarious and inspiring comic book ode to creative fun without screens, just right for young readers who might need the tiniest boost to become bookworms.
Izzie's big brother Ollie is really, really into video games, specifically Smash Tower, which features monsters, robots and evil fairies with a Stinking Swamp to navigate and a Tipping Tower to climb. He's so into it that he's gotten rid of most of his beloved old toys, much to Izzie's dismay. "That is baby stuff. I am over it," he tells
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