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The Pirate Queen: A Novel
By Ariel Lawhon
A rollicking tale of the strongest of strong women.
White Elephant: A Novel
By Jeyamohan; translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar
An Irishman in India confronts the ugliness of the Raj.
Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome’s Descent into Dictatorship
By Robert Harris
A dynamic figure from antiquity is rendered oddly lifeless.
Wayward Girls
By Susan Wiggs
The classic “mean Irish nuns” story gets an Upstate New York reboot.
Vanishing Point
By Ellen Prentiss Campbell
A detailed re-imagining of 19th-century painter George Hetzel and his kin.
The Mapmaker
By Tom Young
Can a French Resistance fighter get her critical drawings to the Allies ahead of D-Day?
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves: A Novel
By Stephen O’Connor
In prewar Berlin, ordinary citizens confront (or ignore) rising fascism.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
By Irene Solà; translated by Mara Faye Lethem
Women confront the devil, the perversity of war, and their own capacity for malice.
