Perusing devotees realize there's not at all like at long last getting your hands on (or getting a Libby warning for) a book you've been holding up months (or years)…
THE BOOK OF ATLANTIS BLACK The Search for a Sister Gone Missing By Betsy Bonner When we meet Atlantis Black in 2002, she is onstage, an up-and-coming musician performing at the…
KINGS COUNTYBy David Goodwillie Can a person with a tattoo have a soul? To judge from a broad swath of contemporary fiction, the answer would seem to be no — at…
Perusing devotees realize there's not at all like at long last getting your hands on (or getting a Libby warning for) a book you've been holding up months (or years)…
THE BOOK OF ATLANTIS BLACK The Search for a Sister Gone Missing By Betsy Bonner When we meet Atlantis Black in 2002, she is onstage, an up-and-coming musician performing at the…
KINGS COUNTYBy David Goodwillie Can a person with a tattoo have a soul? To judge from a broad swath of contemporary fiction, the answer would seem to be no — at…
The Connecticut town where 14-year-old Molly Frost is surviving the end of her eighth-grade year has a bear problem. Bears have taken to wandering into people’s backyards and through the…
Sia Martinez is trying so hard to believe in miracles. It’s been three years since her mom was taken away by ICE; almost two since she was pronounced dead, even though…
BIOGRAPHY OF RESISTANCEThe Epic Battle Between People and PathogensBy Muhammad H. Zaman304 pp. Harper Wave. $28.99. In “Biography of Resistance,” Zaman considers antibiotics as the major weapon for killing bacterial pathogens…
There is a large birthmark on the back of my thigh. Even though it has been with me over half a century, I can’t recall which leg bears its dark…
Recent poetry releases: THE CLEARING: Poems, by Allison Adair. (Milkweed, $22.) The poems in Adair’s debut draw on folklore and the animal world to assert feminist viewpoints and mortal terror in…
EAT THE BUDDHALife and Death in a Tibetan TownBy Barbara Demick Tibetans encountered Chinese Communists for the first time during the Long March of the mid-1930s, when Mao’s Red Army evaded…
