More than a collection of stories, Tobias’ debut is a selection of gritty, emotional character studies. Bettie, the protagonist of “Nova,” fixates on her mysterious companion, Jones, as the...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/emily-jon-tobias/monarch-2/
A group of creatures, including a ladybug, a roly-poly, a snail, and a couple of slugs, watch the sunset. Firefly shows up and encourages the others to stay up late to see the moonflower bloom. �...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steph-waldo/tiny-tales-2/
Translated from Hungarian, this unique picture book consisting of short stories challenges young readers to think outside the box and ponder the nature of the world we live in as well as the limi...
Kunzru’s seventh novel is narrated by Jay, who in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic is in ill health, getting by delivering groceries in upstate New York. His route takes him to an estate...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/hari-kunzru/blue-ruin-2/
Ally Blake, a widowed mother of two and owner of a financially strapped art gallery in San Diego, risks everything to exhibit at a Bogotá art fair and hopefully make it big. Specializing in Lati...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/linda-moore/five-days-in-bogota/
An insect narrator offers readers a peek into apartments filled with baking monkeys, a houseplant-hoarding panther, a family of musical spiders, an adventure-loving hippo, and many more creative ...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mikolaj-pa/no-5-bubblegum-street/
Schjeldahl (1942-2022) was best known as an art critic, a role he held at the New Yorker right up until his death at the age of 80. He made the East Village his home for most of his life, but his...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-schjeldahl/the-art-of-dying-2/
Twelve-year-old B has lived unhappily in various foster homes since their parents’ deaths. Nonbinary, trans, and undecided on their new name, B also grapples with their emotional, anxious, neur...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robin-gow/gooseberry/
Speaking directly to the infant, the narrator says that this family speaks Hindi, English, and some Spanish. “My name is Narayan,” the young narrator says. “We have named you Uma.” The na...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shelly-anand/in-this-family/
The child, who has dark brown skin and wavy white hair, lives happily with his adoptive hijabi mother and her loving spaceship community. When he becomes confused about his identity, his uncondit...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jes-wibowo/lunar-boy/
Everyone has a rainbow, “made up of all the things that make you happy.” As the book begins, a pale-skinned, black-haired child takes part in a variety of activities: having a bubble bath, tr...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shane-jordan/the-rainbow-parade-jordan/
“If you found a little ball on the grass and it was there for days, you could take it home.” Using “if” statements like this, similar to those found in beloved books such as If You Give a...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kevin-henkes/finding-things-2/
While Jefferson and the other American revolutionaries fought for independence from Britain, he undertook a lesser-known battle—against scientific misinformation. Jefferson loved the natural wo...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/beth-anderson/thomas-jeffersons-battle-for-science/
Russian scholar Knight, author of Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder (2017), here delves into the role of ill-fated oligarch Boris Berezovsky in aiding the rise of Vladimir Put...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amy-knight/the-kremlins-noose/
Against the sultry, jazzy backdrop of New Orleans, attorney Noel Corbin, also known as Crow, has struggled with sobriety and dedicated his career to helping those who get a raw deal in the city�...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jimmie-martinez/nolas-black-dove/
The author astutely observes that while millennials generally want to retire relatively early, they often adopt strategies inconsistent with that goal. Afraid of volatility, they avoid the stock ...
After stealing a cache of drugs and money from a recent raid, a disillusioned Crowder is caught, convicted, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. “Here I am, putting my life on the line every fu...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/richard-zappa/the-lion-hunt/
Our belief in human exceptionalism has long included the dogma that we are the only animals that create complex social networks—but we are wrong. In this compelling book, evolutionary biologist...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lee-alan-dugatkin/the-well-connected-animal/
According to Richardson, some key traits lodged in the American ethos, such as self-reliance and maintaining privacy, seem positive but have contributed to increasing widespread isolation; trauma...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-f-richardson-1/our-worst-strength/
Twenty-nine-year-old El is used to living on the fringes. She spent her teen years in Manhattan in a cramped apartment with her single mother and her mother’s best friend, sharing a bedroom wit...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alana-b-lytle/mans-best-friend/