The Garden Against Time

Olivia Laing’s new book presents gardening as a creative process, one just as involved with the imagination as writing can be.

Reviewed by Sarah Moorhouse

Brotherless Night

Now out in paperback, V. V. Ganeshananthan’s 2023 award-winning novel is at once a product of long and careful research and an amazing feat of empathic imagination.

Reviewed by Ann Klefstad

Arguing for a Better World

This new collection of essays by philosopher Arianne Shahvisi offer a refreshing amalgam of progressive politics and professorial pondering.

Reviewed by Josh Steinbauer

Walk the Darkness Down

The latest novel by Daniel Magariel doesn’t shy away from sad, even tragic, truths, but this story about a troubled marriage also suggests the possibility of hope.

Reviewed by Jonathan Fletcher

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

George Orwell’s contributions are many—though, as Anna Funder argues, it was the women in his life that made his success possible.

Reviewed by C.T. Wolf