This week, we spotlight journalist Emily Feng's Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, an "absorbing and fearless work of reportage" about the lengths Xi Jinping's government has gone to repress ethnic and religious minorities in China, desiring "only one kind of flower in its garden"; and comics creator Jeff Lemire's "addictively bizarre" Fishflies compiles the seven issues of his horror series about strange happenings during a summer fishfly infestation in a small Ontario town. Meanwhile, the fish are fishy in the hilarious picture book Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson and illustrated by National Book Award and Caldecott Medal winner Dan Santat, who together utilize "perfect comical timing" to educate young readers about how these slippery creatures defy categories.
And in The Writer's Life, Bridgett M. Davis, author of the new memoir Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss and Legacy, reflects on the revelatory power that Toni Morrison's Sula had on her life. Find out which artist's shimmery work she dreams of having on a book cover and whose short stories made her want to become a writer.