by Isaac Butler
Isaac Butler's The Perfect Moment excavates the late 20th century to show that the political playbook of the 2020s was perfected in earlier battles over paintings, photographs, and performance art. The title originates from a retrospective exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's career that famously included homoerotic images and was canceled under political pressure, setting off a chain reaction of controversy that eventually engulfed the National Endowment for the Arts in issues of censorship that would land before
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by Alexandra Vasti
Alexandra Vasti (Ladies in Hating) transports readers once again to Regency-era England, this time with a delicious mix of forged antiquities, smuggled goods, and squatting in the Cornish estate of a princess.
Lady Ruby Ballimore is smarter than ladies are expected to be. When she rather loudly proclaims that the art her host is showing off is forged, heads turn. The resulting scandal damages her host's reputation and her father's social standing, cementing her fate as a spinster. The man who procured the
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by Maria Turtschaninoff, trans. by Annie Prime
Part generational epic, part linked story collection, and part fairy tale, Tangled Roots by Maria Turtschaninoff, translated from the Swedish by Annie Prime, brings the history of a place to life. In the 17th century, a soldier is given land in the forests of Ostrobothnia, and Nevabacka Farm is born. There, generations of descendants work the land alongside the magical forest folk.
Each chapter connects the characters to the family tree, carrying the narrative thread forward. Young Ingrid mentions that her
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by Elle Gonzalez Rose
The teen daughter of a convicted murderer attempts to prove her own innocence after a deadly weekend getaway in the chilling and captivating YA horror thriller I Didn't Do It by Elle Gonzalez Rose (The Girl You Know).
It's been more than a year since Dina Soto's father, a "beloved soccer coach," was sentenced to life in prison after confessing to the murder of two teenage boys. The crime turned the Sotos into "villains" in their small town of Millcreek, and Dina's already overprotective Mami now insists that
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