A young woman in the early 1950s experiences an increasingly severe depression while navigating academic opportunity, social expectations, and the pressures of adulthood. The novel presents her interior perspective as she struggles with identity, career choices, and the medical responses to her mental illness.

An extended piece of narrative journalism that follows postwar U.S. test pilots and the first astronauts selected for Project Mercury, probing why these men accepted extreme danger and how American aviation and space culture valorized risk.

Two girls grow up together in a Black Ohio neighborhood and their friendship—shaped by class, family, and local expectations—becomes a lasting pressure that reshapes both their lives and the community around them.

Set in a Midwestern town during the Depression era, the novel follows a young Black girl who internalizes local and cultural standards of beauty and longs for blue eyes as a way to be seen as lovable.

A grandmother, her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia, and the child's father spend a summer on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland as the family lives with the recent death of the mother.

A retired art professor and collector secretly works as a professional assassin. He is pulled back into service to avenge the murder of an American agent, a mission that entwines high-altitude mountaineering with clandestine espionage and a fixation on art objects.

A long-form nonfiction account of the 1959 murders of a farming family in rural Kansas and the investigation that followed. The work follows the discovery of the crime, the police inquiry, interviews with townspeople and suspects, and the eventual identification, trial, and punishment of the perpetrators.

A Wizard of Earthsea follows Ged, a gifted youth from the island of Gont, whose early talent leads him to a school of wizardry. After a duel goes wrong and releases a dangerous shadow, he must leave home and undertake a solitary quest to confront and undo the harm he caused.

Two contrasting societies — one organized around communal, anarchist principles and the other structured by more conventional hierarchy and market relations — come into contact.