The author is willing to let her main character be both her double and the butt of her joke.

Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters rescues a destroyed world.

In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable.

Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan is full of unrestrained, devil-may-care attitude.

The cartoonist has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

In Emily St. James’s new novel, three trans women figure out what life to live—and what to sacrifice for it.