Books

Rick Bass reviews Victoria Chang’s Tree of Knowledge, a collection that moves past grief and rage toward a deeper, stranger vision of the world beyond injustice.

Vampires in the Mojave, a post-collapse Los Angeles, and a Palestinian exile’s lifelong search for home: Paul Wilner previews the books worth clearing your schedule for.

From hate crimes and Hollywood outlaws to a Palestinian exile and transcendent collected poems, these standout titles were recently featured in our Monday Book Review newsletter.

Greg Sarris’s The Last Human Bear traces the life of a Pomo girl who grows up in small-town Santa Rosa in the 1930s.