Our special spring books section boasts everything from searching memoirs and haunting novels of failed revolution to caustic tales about the borderless lives of millennials.

	A fresh new season of writing arrives
	Doretta Lau slices convention in How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
	Local Customs is a dreamlike vision of two worlds
	The Ever After of Ashwin Rao tracks the emotional toll of violence
	Bruce Grierson helps debunk aging myths in What Makes Olga Run?
	New cookbooks tackle DIY projects, growing your own food, back-yard chickens, and more
	Astra Taylor disrupts Silicon Valley’s techno-utopian narrative in The People’s Platform