While we already picked our favorite books of 2024, our reviews editors thought it would be a shame to let the year end without one final round of recommendations.

After issuing a preliminary injunction in July 2023, a federal judge in Arkansas has now permanently struck down two key ...

Kelley debuts with a captivating and perfectly balanced blend of history, fantasy, and good old-fashioned carnival magic. In 1911 New York City, Puerto Rican immigrant Benny makes a meager and ...

In Mahloudji’s ebullient debut, a Persian family reckons with their exile and loss of prestige in the wake of the Islamic Revolution. In December 2005, middle-aged Shirin Valiat, a charismatic ...

The practice of segregating sports by sex is rooted in patriarchal values, not scientific fact, according to this forceful polemic from Bekker, a professor of health at the University of Bath, and ...

Collins debuts with a finely tuned tale of artistic ambition and cultural shifts in the 1970s Texas music scene. Married Austin bar owners Deanna and Wendell hire up-and-coming singer-songwriter ...

Cavanagh sacrifices plausibility for plot surprises in his disappointing eighth thriller featuring New York City con man–turned–attorney Eddie Flynn (after The Accomplice). A prologue ...

The foundation has debuted an annual lifetime achievement prize, to be awarded each year at the Massachusetts Independent ...

Nourishing Amy blogger Lanza debuts with a poorly organized assortment of basic vegan recipes. The collection is divided into two sections of 40 recipes each: part one, “Healthy Brain ...

Historian Adlington follows up The Dressmakers of Auschwitz with a moving account of four Jewish girls persecuted during the Holocaust whose fates were intertwined with a simple article of a ...

irshenbaum (Rabbits for Food) offers a deeply moving and playfully arch narrative of an artist dealing with her husband’s mental and physical decline. A typical “internal weather report” for ...

The journey to a destination wedding hits some turbulence in McBreen’s entertaining debut. Ada Gallman is dreading her sister’s wedding in Ireland partly because of their strained relationship ...