Decades ago, the first thing you’d do in a new job was print out fresh business cards. They’d have your name, your ...

Two people with bad luck in relationships find each other through a popular Reddit thread. Emma Grant and her best friend, Maddy, are travel nurses, working at hospitals for three-month stints while ...

A debut author blends autobiography and ethnography in this exploration of Sierra Leone in the 1980s. The recent history of Sierra Leone is one often associated with violence, disease, and tragedy.

A carbon standard? The idea is nothing if not audacious: solving global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it, perhaps in bank vaults where it would function like the gold ...

A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...

Gabriel Tallent is making a return with his first novel in more than eight years. Riverhead will publish Tallent’s Crux next year, the press announced in a news release.It will be the author’s second ...

The iconic model tells the story of her eventful life. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be ...

The time is the not-so-distant future, when the US's spiraling social freedoms have finally called down a reaction, an Iranian-style repressive "monotheocracy" calling itself the Republic of Gilead—a ...

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but ...

In the midst of political turmoil, how do you escape the only country that you’ve ever known and navigate a new life? Parallel stories of three different middle school–aged refugees—Josef from Nazi ...

Imagine a post-millennial trickster spin on The Red Badge of Courage only with broader landscapes, complex racial dynamics, and corrosive humor. Call him Anders. He’s a tall, pale teenage naif who ...