5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (514+ words) Ambitious, lyrical and vast in scope, The Witches of Cambridge proves Alice Hoffman still has fresh spells to cast. The Witches of Cambridge It is not surprising that Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic (1995) and its sequels, would tackle another…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (301+ words) Meg Mason’s vivid Sophie, Standing There is a tribute to literature, relationships and the power of owning one’s experiences. Things aren’t going well for Sophie. Her husband has unceremoniously kicked her out: While she was in the shower, he announced…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (651+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source This is a book about siblings, as is Cooch Helped. How have your own experiences with siblings affected your writing—as well as your worldview? I have a younger sister and brother that…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (37+ words) Language takes flight with the help of talented translators in The Butterfly Season, Tarantula and White Elephant. 3 brilliant books in translation for National Translation Month See our latest list of the best titles of the month....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) Why do women have such a hard time saying no? Jezebel founder Anna Holmes argues that the power to refuse is a key to emotional well being. The Power of No In The Power of No: A Celebration, journalist Anna…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (524+ words) In his dark, disarming and very funny The Castle, Jon Ronson ventures into the manosphere to investigate masculinity in crisis. Rudyard Kipling’s 1910 poem “If” gives some simple advice on becoming a man: “If you can keep your head when all…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (705+ words) Heroic legends and cautionary tales from the ancient Greeks have always made for compelling narratives, and this month, BookPage staff chose four contemporary retellings of some of these classic myths. The Hold List: Something borrowed There is something about Greek…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (971+ words) Plus, great new installments in the Cork O’Connor, Barker & Llewelyn and Billy Boyle series in this month’s Whodunit column. A historical, academia romance-mystery? Yes please! The temptation to compare William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor novels to the Leaphorn/Chee novels…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (377+ words) Chloe Benjamin’s Under Story is an expansive literary sci-fi tale balancing speculative physics with a deeply relatable story of love and grief. In Chloe Benjamin’s exquisitely imagined and emotionally rich Under Story, a woman moves to Antarctica in search of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (389+ words) The Art of Charming a Changeling is a sweetly imaginative slice-of-life romantic fantasy where the fairies are real, the humans are odd and everyone is kind, albeit a little mischievous. The Art of Charming a Changeling Readers looking for a…...