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An excerpt from “The Beauty in Breaking,” by Michele Harper
Lacy Crawford told her story when she was a student at St. Paul’s School. Few people listened. Now she’s telling it again.
“The Vapors,” by David Hill, brings the mobsters, gamblers, drinkers and crooked politicians to life in an exuberant history of a now-forgotten capital of sleaze.
David James Poissant’s “Lake Life” tests the limits of a family’s capacity for love and forgiveness.
Take bored boys. Add lucid dreaming. Shake vigorously. Welcome to Alex North’s dark thriller, “The Shadows.”
“22 Minutes of Unconditional Love,” by Daphne Merkin, muses on the process of making up stories while recounting a young woman’s torrid affair with an older man.
In “Raising a Rare Girl,” Heather Lanier writes about a daughter who has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
Lynn Steger Strong’s new novel follows a Brooklyn wife and mother through professional failure, bankruptcy and the legacy of her past traumas.
Camilla Lackberg shows how stifled ambition never really goes away. It just bides its time.
Two new story collections reveal the toxicities of (mostly white) masculinity, from the frat house to the Midwestern farm.
In Lysley Tenorio’s debut novel, “The Son of Good Fortune,” the Filipino-American journey is over before the story even begins.
In “Cool for America,” Andrew Martin’s characters are caught in a lingering post-adolescence, stretching for a certainty that eludes them.
In Robin Wasserman’s new novel, “Mother Daughter Widow Wife,” a young woman found on a city bus has no identification, no memory, and no one looking for her.
Christina Schwarz’s fifth novel tells the life story of half of the famous duo, showing the loneliness of life on the lam.
Set in Atlantic City in the 1930s, Rachel Beanland’s debut novel wades through heartbreak.
Fans of his Borne trilogy, whether young or old, will find much to enjoy in “A Peculiar Peril.”
A memoir from a Twitter celebrity doesn’t name names, but it does provide an entertaining back story.
Erica C. Barnett’s memoir, “Quitter,” chronicles her long and winding road to an alcohol-free life.
Julian E. Zelizer’s “Burning Down the House” sees Newt Gingrich’s rise in Congress as a turning point in political history.
In “Desert Notebooks,” a study of arid America reveals the roots of our present calamities.
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