Feb 28, 2023

“I feel like we're in a real golden age of fantasy that's exploring diversity from lots of different perspectives, and telling lots of stories that need to be heard at the moment — I feel really honored to be working within that space.”

A Day of Fallen Night has what readers want in high fantasy: strong women,...

Feb 25, 2023

“When you've been disappointed for that long in your life — what kind of people are you? What do you become?”

A Country You Can Leave, the debut novel from author Asale Angel-Ajani, is an unconventional family story following a Russian mother and Black, biracial daughter as they navigate class, trauma and...

Feb 23, 2023

“I'm one of those writers that … I think I know the story I want to write when I'm going in with a novel … but by the time I get into the middle of it, it's like I've discovered a totally different story.”

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s A Spell of Good Things explores class, love, and family ties with...

Feb 21, 2023

“It's a literary, feminist, boarding school murder mystery — everyone's favorite genre.” 

I Have Some Questions for You is the thrilling and inventive new novel from Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Part murder mystery, part timely take...

Feb 16, 2023

“No one in this cast believes that they have a home — they have houses, but they don't have homes. They were born into this country, they were born into these places, but they don't feel like their homes.”

Within the rich setting of 1940s Trinidad, Kevin Jared Hosein’s sweeping novel Hungry Ghosts brings...