Spencer Reece’s long-awaited third poetry collection weaves his life in Spain with the questions we all ask about how we can possibly live in this world of ours. Review by Todd Osborne

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