Sarah Selden reviews Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Why War? by Richard Overy, reviewed by Elizabeth Stice

Sam Wilber reviews The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich (Little, Brown & Company 2024)

Craig Johnson’s First Frost: A Longmire Mystery reviewed by Michael Taylor. What does the newest book add to the existing narrative and how does it consider the passage of time?

Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol (First Second, 2024) and Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg (Harry N. Abrams, 2024) reviewed by Cecelia Larsen.

A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson, reviewed by Taylor Gaede. What can we learn from the newest installment in the Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner thriller series?

Matthew Sparacio reviews A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin, 2023)

LuElla D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey’s Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century reviewed by Dixie Dillon Lane

There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib, reviewed by Elizabeth Stice

Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel by C Pam Zhang, reviewed by Sarah Selden

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, reviewed by Cecelia Larsen

Anne Tyler’s new novel, French Braid, reviewed by Jenifer Elmore

Robert Darnton’s new book, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 reviewed by Elizabeth Stice

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s new book, The Will to See, reviewed by Michael Jimenez.

Francis Spufford’s new book, Cahokia Jazz, reviewed by Joel Harold Tannenbaum.