By BookPage | Catherine Hollis | 5/31/2025 1:00 AM

Jessa Crispin grapples with masculinity in a surprisingly acute and intelligent manner: through the films of Michael Douglas. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Joy Ramirez | 5/31/2025 1:00 AM

Music journalist Jeff Weiss gives an insider’s view into the media machine that tormented Britney Spears, and how he contributed to it. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Stephanie Cohen Xu | 5/31/2025 1:00 AM

Inspired by The Nutcracker, Rowenna Miller’s historical fantasy novel The Palace of Illusions expands the story of the ballet and reconstructs it in an unforgettable way. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Kelly Blewett | 5/27/2025 1:00 AM

Fun and heartfelt, Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line uncovers powerful, emotional moments during calls to the London-based helpline, which provided support for more than 30 years. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Laura Hutson Hunter | 5/20/2025 1:00 AM

Céline Philippe breaks down the art and science of making and using plant-based dyes in her beautifully photographed Wild Dyeing. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Sarah McCraw Crow | 5/20/2025 1:00 AM

Both of Yiyun Li’s sons died by suicide. Her clear-eyed memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow is not about getting through grief, but about living in its abyss. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Matthew Jackson | 5/20/2025 1:00 AM

A surreal spin on grimdark, The Starving Saints is that rare book that gives fantasy and horror readers what they want in equal measure. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Thane Tierney | 5/20/2025 1:00 AM

Chris Pavone proves himself a master of deception in The Doorman, keeping the reader guessing which direction violence may come from during one terrible day in NYC. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Dolly R. Sickles | 5/20/2025 1:00 AM

Katee Robert wraps up the Crimson Sails trilogy with Rebel in the Deep, a queer polyamorous love story about a throuple that’s truly a force to be reckoned with. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Anne Bartlett | 5/19/2025 1:00 AM

Baby snatchers abducted a Chinese toddler and sent her to a U.S. adoption agency. A decade later, Barbara Demick reunited her with her birth family. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Lauren Bufferd | 5/19/2025 1:00 AM

Madeleine Thien makes a case for the search for home as a central tenet of our humanity in her complex, ambitious fourth novel, The Book of Records. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Maya Fleischmann | 5/19/2025 1:00 AM

In her latest wonderful graphic novel, Spent, Alison Bechdel captures what it means to be flawed yet striving to live by your values, while navigating the joys and absurdities of life. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Anne Bartlett | 5/19/2025 1:00 AM

Barbara Demick reports the story of twin girls separated by China’s one-child policy in her moving, sensitive Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Alice Cary | 5/15/2025 1:54 AM

Stressing the importance of science and collaboration, Jason Chin’s Hurricane offers an invaluable reference for informed young beachgoers, weather watchers and budding scientists. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Alice Cary | 5/14/2025 1:00 AM

Milo Todd’s soulful and suspenseful account of trans people fighting for survival amid political persecution after World War II, The Lilac People, could hardly be timelier. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman | 5/13/2025 1:00 AM

Don’t call the author’s sophomore novel “triumphant”: In The Emperor of Gladness, overcoming isn't the answer. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Phoebe Farrell-Sherman | 5/13/2025 1:00 AM

Ocean Vuong’s second novel represents an evolution of his novelistic powers. It’s magisterial, precise and mythic in its resonance. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Deborah Mason | 5/13/2025 1:00 AM

The Einstein of Sex brilliantly resurrects Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the pioneering gay doctor and LGBTQ+ rights activist who defied the Nazis. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Natalia Berry | 5/13/2025 1:00 AM

As we mark the centennial of Malcolm X’s birth, The Afterlife of Malcolm X serves as a vital reminder of his enduring impact—and why his story continues to matter. ... Read full Story

By BookPage | Laura Hutson Hunter | 5/13/2025 1:00 AM

Olga Naiman will guide you to manifest your desires through interior design in her handsome and inspiring Spatial Alchemy. ... Read full Story