Alia Volz pays tribute to her mother’s enterprising marijuana brownie business in Home Baked
…relief from devastating symptoms when conventional medicine offered few options. Stories like Meridy’s place the rapidly evolving legal and cultural status of all cannabis-related products into fascinating perspective. “The AIDS…
The characters of Katy Simpson Smith’s The Everlasting span the long, winding history of Rome
…face through the distance of a computer screen, a fascinating woman he meets by strange chance, and a series of alarming new physical symptoms that threaten his sense of order…
Patti Smith chronicles her idiosyncratic path through the creative life in Year of the Monkey
…bearing witness to music’s alchemical power in a volatile world. Smith’s latest dispatch from her nomadic travels, Year of the Monkey, also reflects the surreal confusion of our fractured, threatening…
Novelist Louise Erdrich draws from her own family history for The Night Watchman
…battle against Resolution 108 would have meant losing legal safeguards that kept these already ravaged nations from dissolving altogether. Alongside Thomas, the novel’s other driving force is Patrice Paranteau, a…
Lorraine López sends up the foibles of arts faculty in Postcards from the Gerund State
…gymnastics women often perform in order not to upset the social peace — even when that peace is, in reality, making their lives a daily war. Postcards from the Gerund…
Ta-Nehisi Coates turns his talents toward fiction in a powerful debut novel
…at Lockless then grows more tenuous. He could be sold any day. When that time comes, “running is not a thought, not even as a dream, but a need, no…
