The Modern Saints
Modern iconographer Gracie Morbitzer’s new book brings the saints up close and personal. Review by Tulio Huggins
Modern iconographer Gracie Morbitzer’s new book brings the saints up close and personal. Review by Tulio Huggins
Poet Paul Jaskunas’s new novel brings rural Lithuania and Manhattan to life through the eyes of the emigrants and immigrants he portrays. Review by Peter Lilly
A new independent edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet takes a strong stand in a scholarly gap but doesn’t close the book on this most studied of plays. Review by Raquel Sequeira
Waxahatchee’s new record celebrates the artist’s roots—and exemplifies the perpetual cycle of trends in American music. Review by Joseph Collum
A career-spanning collection of Maggie Nelson’s essays on art is punctuated and enlivened with conversations between the author, artists, and friends. Review by Kathleen Hartsfield Spicer
Dr. Amy Marga turns to early Christian history to turn our facile notions of what it means to be a Christian mother on their heads. Review by Vienna Scott
Spufford’s latest alternative history creates a richly creative city ruled and peopled by the Native Americans our own history has so often abused and sidelined. Review by T. Wyatt Reynolds
This collection of short stories focuses on women who aren’t extraordinary—but who, it makes clear, still have stories to tell. Review by Whitney Rio-Ross
Marilynne Robinson’s book on Genesis starts simply, but delves into the thorny questions of the first book of the Bible with her characteristic flair. Review by Hayden Kvamme
Richardson’s account of resilience in the face of great loss leaves out the potential for our suffering to do us good. Review by Sarah Clark