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When the World Explodes: Essays
By Amy Lee Scott
Personal history and natural disasters intertwine in these reflections on trauma.
Out of the Darkness
By Frank Trentmann
How does a nation overcome its barbaric past?
The Translator’s Daughter
By Grace Loh Prasad
A Taiwanese American woman struggles to reclaim her voice.
The Watermark: A Novel
By Sam Mills
A remarkably ambitious, remarkably uneven tale.
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing
By Joshua Hammer
An overabundance of detail hobbles what could’ve been an absorbing saga.
Hot Air: A Novel
By Marcy Dermansky
Despite its sex-filled plot, this tawdry domestic drama ultimately deflates.
The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution
By Joyce E. Chaplin
This excellent history covers far more than the Founder’s forays into home heating.
Happy Land: A Novel
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A DC woman discovers she’s heir to a long-ago, real-life Black kingdom.
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