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  • Feast
    Catherine Kurtz
    Published 6/9/26

    In 19th century France, a young woman with a magical sense of taste saves a duc from poison, and her new role as poison taster thrusts her into the world of the nobility, ...
  • Summer's Never Over
    Darby Bozeman
    Published 6/9/26

    In this addictive dual-timeline debut novel, a woman confronts her past at the remote Southern summer camp where the tragic death of her fellow counselor may not have been an ...
  • The Reimagining of Thornwood House
    Jaleigh Johnson
    Published 6/9/26

    A witch and her young ward discover a magical, walking house and learn the true meaning of home in this cozy, enchanting novel from New York Times bestselling author Jaleigh ...

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  • Blood River Witch
    T J Martinson
    Published 6/16/26

    Set on Kentucky's Blood River, a Sheriff's Deputy investigates the death of her ex-fiance, whose brutal occultist murder strongly resembles a similar murder decades ago, for ...
  • Cece Downing's Start Over Summer
    Soon Wiley
    Published 6/16/26

    A witty, heartfelt novel about a young woman who leaves everything behind to work on an oyster farm in a small New England town.
  • Come Undone
    Eddie Huang
    Published 6/16/26

    From the bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat comes a subversively funny and surprisingly moving rom-com about a haunted manchild's twisted search for love.

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  • The Jellyfish Problem
    Tessa Yang
    Published 6/2/26

    A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in this richly ...
  • Feast
    Catherine Kurtz
    Published 6/9/26

    In 19th century France, a young woman with a magical sense of taste saves a duc from poison, and her new role as poison taster thrusts her into the world of the nobility, ...
  • Summer's Never Over
    Darby Bozeman
    Published 6/9/26

    In this addictive dual-timeline debut novel, a woman confronts her past at the remote Southern summer camp where the tragic death of her fellow counselor may not have been an ...

Latest "Beyond the Book" Articles

  • Goya's Black Paintings
    Beyond the book article for The Names
    In a key scene in Florence Knapp's novel The Names, two characters are in an art gallery viewing an exhibition. The author writes:

    'They stop in front of a hideous image, a painting on loan from a gallery in Madrid. It shows a naked man, frenzied and wild-eyed, consuming a smaller ...

  • Her Beloved Rose Windows: The Masterpieces of Notre-Dame Cathedral
    Beyond the book article for A Private Man
    The magnificent rose windows of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris are considered masterpieces of engineering for their artistic beauty, mathematical precision, and structural stability. Amazingly, the windows remained intact after the debilitating Paris fire of 2019.

    The windows were created ...
  • Short Stories in The New Yorker
    Beyond the book article for Baby in a Box
    Four stories from Sarah Braunstein's Baby in a Box were first published in The New Yorker, a magazine with a 101-year history of showcasing excellent short fiction from the likes of John Cheever, Mavis Gallant, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, and William Trevor.

    ...

New in Hardcover

  • Whistler
    Ann Patchett
    Published 6/2/26

    The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power...
  • Entangled States
    Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
    Published 5/19/26

    A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story.
  • Returns and Exchanges
    Kayla Rae Whitaker
    Published 5/19/26

    A sweeping novel of one Kentucky family's rise and fall throughout the 1980s—a tragicomic tour de force about love and marriage, parents and children, and the perils of ...

New in Paperback

  • Katabasis
    R. F. Kuang
    Published 6/2/26

    Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling ...
  • The Compound
    Aisling Rawle
    Published 6/2/26

    Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.
  • Meet Me at the Crossroads
    Megan Giddings
    Published 6/2/26

    From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable...

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