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The educator and PEN/Faulkner Foundation board chairs third novel takes on a pivotal human rights case in the Deep South.

In Martinez’s The Oxford Brotherhood (Pegasus Crime, Apr.), a discovery about Lewis Carroll results in violence.

In Koshersoul (Amistad, Aug.), The Cooking Gene author Michael W. Twitty considers the foodways of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora.

In This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch (Putnam, May), essayist Carvan reflects on motherhood, joy, and her passion for Doctor Strange actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

This month, Michelle Argyle at Melissa Williams Design reimagines the cover of Powerballs by Jimmy Clifton.

In this edition of Indie Spotlight, our monthly thematic roundup of BookLife titles, we’re celebrating romance and relationship books.

A journalist publishes a page-turning sci-fi novel—and gives it away for free.

We spoke with Jonas, debut author of Vladimir, about the campus novel as social novel, what romantic affairs and their aftermaths still have to teach us about human nature, and more.

We spoke with Mary Kuryla about her debut novel, Away to Stay (Regal House, Feb.), finding the voice of her narrator, the meaning of home in a book filled with unhoused characters, and more.

After winnning an NBA and a Pulitzer for his 2018 biography of Harlem Renaissance Black scholar Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart has now edited Alain Locke, The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings, a new collection of Locke’s classic essays and reviews, out now from Penguin Classics.