Heart & Soul

Psychology

Enchantment : Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

by Katherine May

available now, hardcover, Riverhead Books

In Enchantment, Katherine May invites the reader to come with her on a journey to reawaken our innate sense of wonder and awe. With humor, candor, and warmth, she shares stories of her own struggles with work, family, and the aftereffects of pandemic, particularly the feelings of overwhelm as the world rushes to reopen.

Spirituality

The Wonder Paradox :

Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives

by Jennifer Michael Hecht

available in March, hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Religion once formed the rhythms and structures of society: marking time with calendars, carving out space for contemplation, creating connection, reinforcing legacy and morality. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show. So where shall we find our magic? How do we celebrate milestones? Which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can’t be said? The answer, Hecht—the historian, poet, and bestselling author of Doubt —tells us, is poetry. In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversation with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life, Hecht offers ways to excavate the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true.

Poetry

From the author of How the Word is Passed, Above Ground wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smith’s lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children’s lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing up—through the changing world of which we are all a part.