Words Are My Matter
Ursula K. Le Guin
In this late volume, Le Guin reflects on many of the things that animated her thinking throughout her life.
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
This is a story of the underground railroad, of memory, and of magic—all told with Coates’s exquisite prose.
Errantry
Elizabeth Hand
This collection of shorts includes ghosts, flying machines, witches, ancient trees, and more than one impossible transformation.
And Go Like This
John Crowley
This collection ranges across a wide territory in both place and time, but there are recurring themes: aging, mortality, endings and beginnings—extraordinary reflections on ordinary lives.
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
The cover blurb promises lesbian necromancers in space, and the pages within do not disappoint.
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
In this reimagining of the Iliad, the love story is not of Helen and Paris but of Achilles and his beloved, Patroclus.
Vita Nostra
Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko
This story begins when Sasha, on a beach holiday with her mother, notices a strange man keeping tabs on her.
No other way
On How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
This is a lucid, steady journey through the meaning of both racism and antiracism.
Unpaid labor
On Birth Strike
Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea
Sarah Pinsker
In the titular story from this collection, the world has gone to hell, and those with means have absconded to the sea, in cruise ships where no one gets off at port.
Birth Strike
Jenny Brown
Jenny Brown looks at the declining birth rate in the US—alongside well-funded resistance to abortion and contraceptive access—and sees not a moral divide but an economic power struggle.
Circe
Madeline Miller
This is a subversive and triumphant retelling of the story of Circe, daughter of the sun-god Helios.
Hard Light
Elizabeth Hand
Fleeing Reykjavik amid a series of murders, Cass Neary lands in London expecting to rendevous with her longtime lover Quinn—but Quinn is nowhere to be found.
Available Dark
Elizabeth Hand
Cass Neary has arrived home in New York, after a brief stint in Maine where she just happened to be involved with several mysterious deaths.
Generation Loss
Elizabeth Hand
“My life, who could pretend there wasn’t a big fucking hole in it?”
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
A lovely treatise that argues t hat attention to a place is what makes life—well, alive.
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
A group of Jesuit scientists, led by the polyglot priest Emilio Sandoz, set off on a mission to discover the source of music emanating from the direction of Alpha Centauri.
Resilient Management
Lara Hogan
Lara Hogan has become the face of thoughtful, humane, and rigorous management—and for good reason.
Women Talking
Miriam Toews
A group of Mennonite women suffer for years from mysterious midnight attacks, purportedly the work of demons come to punish them for their sins. Eventually, they discover the assaults are not the work of demons but of men—their own husbands, sons, and neighbors.