Julia May Jonas is a writer and theater director. She has taught theater at Skidmore College and New York University, and lives in Brooklyn with her family. Vladimir is her debut novel.
The Ten Year Affair (2025) Erin Somers "A compulsively readable, surprising, and wholly satisfying story of the way we long, now. Told with inexhaustible wit, Somers's novel is packed full of observations and flights of imagination so perfect in their particulars that their accumulation becomes luminous."
The Winner (2024) Teddy Wayne "A riveting novel about how to have the rich and eat them, too. Sexy, breathless, and brutal."
The Safekeep (2024) Yael van der Wouden "The Safekeep is thrilling: a riveting historical reconciliation and an impossible yet inevitable love story. Superbly wrought-serious, elegant, sexy, devastating."
The Vegan (2023) Andrew Lipstein "I ignored house and home to read this propulsive story of impulse, guilt, and resolve. A dazzling and resonant allegory for our moral moment."
Lost on Me (2023) Veronica Raimo "This book made me want to clear my calendar and read everything of Raimo's I could get my hands on. Incisive, engrossing, and deeply funny."
A Flaw in the Design (2023) Nathan Oates "A Flaw in the Design is a literary thriller of the highest order. Oates manages, with wisdom and insight, to explore the vulnerability of parenthood, the economic injustice of New York City, middle-age compromise, and the fallibility of storytelling, all while telling a heart-pounding tale that commanded my attention from the first sentence to the last."
Cursed Bread (2023) Sophie Mackintosh "Vivid and shocking, written with stunning, incantatory prose, Cursed Bread is the kind of book that upends your nervous system."
American Mermaid (2023) Julia Langbein "Every time I picked up this book I both laughed out loud and sighed in admiration. Deeply hilarious, delightfully strange, intricately constructed and remarkably satisfying, American Mermaid is sensational."
My Last Innocent Year (2023) Daisy Alpert Florin "Propulsive, evocative, and very hot. Every page of My Last Innocent Year bursts with insight about a young woman, shaped by time and circumstance, who is learning to tell the truth."
The Laughter (2023) Sonora Jha "Lush, chilling, and admirably complex, The Laughter is wonderful: A book full of sly wisdom, cutting insight, and heart-pounding suspense."
How to Be Eaten (2022) Maria Adelmann "Gorgeously written and mind-bending, How To Be Eaten is fiction as a magic trick: by redrawing these archetypal characters with modern, vivid, and gothic specificity, Adelmann reminds us that, be it enchanting or devastating, our myths remain."
