The Feather Detective chronicles the pioneering work of the U.S.’s first forensic ornithologist: the brilliant, feisty Roxie Laybourne. ... Read full Story
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Former tech journalist Paul Bradley Carr’s The Confessions is an entertaining, thought-provoking techno-thriller about an AI gone rogue. ... Read full Story
To Sketch a Scandal is a heartwarming and intimate queer historical romance about embracing authenticity in the face of repression. ... Read full Story
Aiden Arata’s intelligent collection of essays, You Have a New Memory, blends memoir, criticism and reportage to produce a vivid portrait of life in the online age. ... Read full Story
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Jennifer Givhan’s Salt Bones employs both the horror of supernatural violence and the horror of systems that ignore missing brown and Black girls and pollute the Earth. ... Read full Story
The tremendous comedy of Maria Reva’s debut novel, Endling, is an act of resistance to oppression with the theatrics to turn things upside-down. ... Read full Story
Thoughtful and enthralling, Soul Machine navigates the age-old conflict between the artificial and the natural with remarkable nuance. This surreal adventure is one you’ll remember. ... Read full Story
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To understand his Aquinnah Wampanoag identity, Joseph Lee interviewed Indigenous people around the world. His memoir, Nothing More of This Land, sparkles with clarity and perspective. ... Read full Story
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching is as decadent as it is terrifying, a showcase for the author’s dark imagination and gorgeous prose. ... Read full Story
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Tanya Talaga’s brilliant, heartbreaking The Knowing unfolds Canada’s brutal history of Indigenous oppression through the story of Talaga’s great-great-grandmother. ... Read full Story
"Shell art isn't a new genre; it's been with us for centuries. The Victorians often framed their family photos with shells. ... The medium also came to the fore in the 1970s when everything was embellished with shells, from photo frames and mirrors to trinket boxes and even furniture." — Stephen Crafti, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2025
Did you know?
Embellish came to English, by way of Anglo-French, from the Latin word bellus, meaning "beautiful." It's in good company: modern language is adorned with bellus descendants. Examples include such classics as beauty, belle, and beau. And the beauty of bellus reaches beyond English: its influence is seen in the French bel, a word meaning "beautiful" that is directly related to the English embellish. And in Spanish, bellus is evidenced in the word bello, also meaning "beautiful."