A linked memoir of personal and communal loss: the author recounts the deaths of five Black men connected to her across roughly four years and situates those deaths within family history, local conditions, and systemic forces.

Through a sequence of illustrated chapters and reflective sections, the author traces her parents’ lives in Vietnam, their escape after the fall of South Vietnam, and the family’s resettlement in the United States.

Pepper is involuntarily confined in a budget-strapped psychiatric hospital in Queens and insists he is not mentally ill.

An ordinary-seeming encounter between strangers escalates into a plotted decision about murder and consequence. The setup focuses on characters who trade confidences and proposals that test ethics and self-interest, then follow the fallout as allegiances and truth become unreliable.

Lucy Muchelney, escaping a painful public marriage scene, answers a call from the Countess of Moth to translate a significant French astronomy text. She arrives at the Countess’s London house expecting work and finds Catherine St Day, a widow who hoped to finish her late husband’s scientific legacy and retire.

A country solicitor is drawn into defending a mother and daughter accused of abducting and assaulting a visiting young woman. The plot hinges on assembling testimony, scrutinizing inconsistent claims, and testing how community suspicion and newspaper pressure shape culpability.

Set in an early 20th-century Brooklyn neighborhood, the novel follows a young girl growing up amid economic hardship and complex family dynamics. It traces the pressures of poverty, education, and personal ambition as the child negotiates loyalty to family and the desire for a different future.

A writer trains and lives with a hawk as she processes bereavement, using close attention to the bird and falconry practice as a way to reckon with grief.

An investigation into nonhuman minds using cephalopods—especially octopuses—as a case study.