There is a particular kind of stranger who shows up in small-town fiction: quiet, a little mysterious, and armed with more generosity than the town knows what to do with. Allen Levi’s “Theo of Golden” bets its entire 300-plus pages on that stranger, and against the odds of a premise
Some books earn their spot on the bestseller list the week they’re published. “Verity” has earned it over and over again, years after its original release, which says something about how effectively Colleen Hoover engineered a story designed to unsettle readers long after they’ve closed the cover. The premise is
Small towns are supposed to be the places where everyone knows everyone, where nothing bad really happens, and where a Fourth of July celebration is just fireworks and lake water. Karin Slaughter has spent a career proving that premise wrong, and “We Are All Guilty Here,” the first installment in
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes from realizing the stranger you’ve been flirting with online might be exactly as dangerous as he seems — and that you might not mind. That’s the current running through Navessa Allen’s “Lights Out,” a dark romance that turns a late-night, liquor-fueled text
VIRA Broadcasting The VIRA Briefing September 2, 2026 Lead Story New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement Postal Service officials working on new mail-voting regulations privately worried the rules could delay or block ballots for huge numbers of eligible voters heading into the midterms
Gabriel Allon has retired more times than most spies get to die once, and “Ransom” finds Daniel Silva’s most durable creation pulled back into the field for the twenty-sixth time — proof that even a restorer of old masters can’t fully step away from watching the world come apart. When
Bruce Lipton has spent decades arguing that biology owes people an apology — that the field oversold a picture of life as a grim competition between selfish genes, when the mechanisms underneath tell a more cooperative story. “Beyond Darwin,” co-written with Patricia King, is his most ambitious attempt yet to
Imagine waking up and knowing, with total certainty, that someone tried to kill you — and that the only witness who can identify them is a version of your own mind that no longer works the way it used to. That is the premise Freida McFadden builds “Brain Damage” around,
There is a particular kind of chill that comes from watching a warning arrive too late to feel like a warning anymore, and that is the register Congressman Jared Huffman writes in for most of “No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism.” He opens not with an
Every era gets the political scare book it deserves, and for Silicon Valley’s current moment of outsized wealth and outsized ambition, Gil Durán’s “The Nerd Reich” is shaping up to be one of the most talked-about entries in the genre. Durán, a journalist and former political operative, isn’t interested in
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