This week, we review Willie Lin's graceful debut, Conversation Among Stones, whose 39 poems "adopt the language of art, nature, and religion while musing on belonging and fate"; and the monograph Deborah Turbeville by Nathalie Herschdorfer, which "convincingly argues for Turbeville's place among the finest photographers of her generation"; plus Janet Fox's second picture book, Wintergarden, "a lyrically hopeful story" about a girl who learns green-thumb lessons from her patient mother, with artist Jasu Hu's "exquisite spreads, resulting in synchronous perfection." And so many more!
Don't miss The Writer's Life with Ahmed Naji, whose novel Using Life made him the only writer in Egyptian history to have been sent to prison for offending public morality, and whose new book, Rotten Evidence, chronicles that experience.