Cecelia Larsen reviews 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)

Taylor Gaede reviews A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson (William Morrow, 2024)

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)

Dixie Dillon Lane reviews Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century by LuElla D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice reviews There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House, 2024)

Sarah Selden reviews Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books, 2023)

Cecelia Larsen reviews The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Jenifer Elmore reviews French Braid by Anne Tyler (Vintage, 2022)

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton (W.W. Norton & Co., 2023)

Michael Jimenez reviews The Will to See by Bernard-Henri Lévy (Yale University Press, 2023)

Joel Harold Tannenbaum reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (Scribner, 2023)