For two months, micropaleontologist Jens Herrle sailed across the Indian Ocean, searching for traces of Earth’s distant past.

Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) and Time is a Mother (2022) — the Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong published a novel, ...

Hailed by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers,” Ocean Vuong is a biographer of violence ... and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Vuong’s poems are whispered prayers of the ...