The beautiful latest from Seethaler (A Whole Life) revolves around the diverse patrons of a Viennese café. In summer 1966, war orphan Robert Simon, now 31 and tired of manual labor, decides to ...

Irish writer O’Donnell debuts with a wrenching and scrupulously realistic narrative of a Dublin-based mother who, after years ...

Dean (I Am Young) immerses readers in sun-drenched, claustrophobic beauty in this compassionate saga about a young woman’s awakening in the 1970s. Greer, a young mixed-race Continue reading ...

Syrian Canadian journalist al-Saadi debuts with a passionate if uneven collection of comics essays about cyclical violence in the Middle East. The title entry, which covers the 2019 demonstrations ...

Fumiya Hayashi, trans. from the Japanese by Alethea and Athena Nibley. Yen, $28 (358p) ISBN 978-1-975380-12-0 In this luminous small-town drama, Hayashi’s English-language debut, a man faces the ...

Čupová’s English-language debut, a whimsical adaptation of the 1921 play by Karel Čapec, spins out a grim moral quandary in marvelous style. Rossum’s Universal Robots manufactures robots ...

In this roving, erudite debut study, Goffe, a professor of literary theory and cultural history at Hunter College, traces the attitudes and beliefs that undergird today’s Continue reading ...

Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present In this eye-opening and disturbing account, historian Berry (History ...

The human sense of smell is more potent than commonly believed, according to this entrancing debut. Debunking the myth that humans are “odor-impaired animals,” Olofsson, a psychology professor ...

The contributors to this harrowing collection of firsthand accounts of conversion therapy “were subjected to dehumanizing practices that sought their erasure,” writes editor Wilson, a former ...

With pulsating lines and musical metaphor, Rogers rhapsodically introduces artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) and her creation of 21 gigantic paintings known as La Grande Vallée Suite. Evocative ...

Martin’s sensorial lines and Hampe’s pale mixed-media illustrations quietly capture the spirit of the art of Agnes Martin (1912–2004) in this softly told exploration of her work and life.