HUNCHBACK, by Saou Ichikawa; translated by Polly Barton Shaka Izawa, the narrator of the Japanese author Saou Ichikawa’s slim and formidable debut novel, “Hunchback,” writes porn...
FIRSTBORN: A Memoir, by Lauren Christensen There are two fierce, fragile fighters in “Firstborn,” Lauren Christensen’s touching memoir about the life and death of her tiny...
STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE, by Kristen Arnett Some people don’t like clowns. I happen to have married one. My husband was a birthday...
The Institute of Black Imagination, in the Oculus at the World Trade Center PATH station, is an experiment in cultural alchemy. It turns a retail store...
Randall K. Wilson, the author of “A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park,” has been named the winner of the...
FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S TRUE: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire, by Christine Wenc When I told a very funny editor that a new book...
Nadler then introduces us to Sonja’s mother, Fania, who immigrated to Montreal after the war and works as a masseuse. “If I press just slightly in...
HOT AIR, by Marcy Dermansky Marcy Dermansky’s new novel, “Hot Air,” begins with a hot-air balloon falling out of the sky and into a suburban swimming...
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER, by Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel would give Gen. Philip Sheridan fits. The Civil War officer is often cited...
SAVING FIVE: A Memoir of Hope, by Amanda Nguyen There is a phrase that recurs at key points throughout Amanda Nguyen’s powerful memoir of activism and...
