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The Watermark: A Novel
By Sam Mills
A remarkably ambitious, remarkably uneven tale.
Hot Air: A Novel
By Marcy Dermansky
Despite its sex-filled plot, this tawdry domestic drama ultimately deflates.
Happy Land: A Novel
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A DC woman discovers she’s heir to a long-ago, real-life Black kingdom.
The Jinn Daughter
By Rania Hanna
A mother maneuvers the realm of death to save her daughter in this overly ambitious debut.
Beasts
By Ingvild Bjerkeland; translated by Rosie Hedger
Norwegian siblings flee creatures that have precipitated society’s collapse.
Wild Dark Shore: A Novel
By Charlotte McConaghy
Climate change and creeping dread torment a family on a remote Antarctic island.
The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories
By Dino Buzzati; translated by Lawrence Venuti
Rediscover the surreal genius of a late Italian master.
The Haunting of Room 904: A Novel
By Erika T. Wurth
An Indigenous investigator seeks to solve a series of paranormal murders.
