A week of new Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Michael Lewis, Meghan O’Gieblyn, and so many more amazing authors. Pour through this list for the fresh selections that are released today: they’ll be flying off the shelves. Norton) “Millet spikes this transfixing tale with keen and caustic insights into friendship and love, privilege and obsession, delusion and truth.” –Booklist Patricia Lockwood, Agate Head/Stone Soup: Poems (Penguin Books) “[The] vivid attention to the natural world and exuberant imagination make it rewarding.” –Publishers Weekly “An inside look at the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.” –From the publisher Imbolo Mbue, Every Story is a Love Story (Random House) “A deeply moving, beautifully told novel about grief, regret, anger, forgiveness, and the insistent resilience of the human heart.” –Patrick Ryan Tracy Daugherty, Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited (St.
Martin’s Press) “An astute and penetrating portrait of a literary great.” –Publishers Weekly Nafissa Thompson-Spires, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford (Scribner) “Sharp, expansive, and polyphonic, a propulsive novel rendered with the wit and care present in all of Thompson-Spires’ work.” –Raven Leilani Nathaniel Philbrick, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World (Viking) “A confounding and encouraging chronicle told from a myriad of perspectives, a bottom-up, epic tale of an inevitable rush toward profit and near-national suicide.” –Ken Burns Kawai Strong Washburn, The Names of the New World (FSG) “The writing in The Names of the New World is cerebral, muscular, electric, moving us through disaster with a light touch, consistently tempered with tenderness, humor, and love, often gorgeous with poetry, and deeply insightful about what it means to be human.” –Tommy Orange Sarah Perry, Death of an Ordinary Man (Mariner) “An extraordinary book. One that slips seamlessly from the metaphysical to the brute realities of the dying body.” –The Sunday Times Stephen King & Peter Straub, Other Worlds Than These (Scribner) “An astonishingly good novel.” –Booklist Meghan O’Gieblyn, Will and Attention: A Memoir (Doubleday) “I was instantly helpless before Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Will and Attention, which spoke with a kind of flaying clarity and graceful consolation to a set of questions about worth, depravity, intention, and practice that scaffold my entire experience of the world.” –Jia Tolentino “A gripping and nuanced saga with an ending that feels both inevitable and well earned.” –Kirkus David Byrne, Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up (Penguin Press) “If music doesn’t pan out for Byrne, he has a viable sideline as a pop-history writer—he has a wry, entertaining, and informed voice whether he’s discussing Vermeer’s paintings or water-management systems in ancient India.” –Kirkus Frank Huyler, The Red Dress (Bellevue Literary Press) “A suspense-filled, character-driven novel about a fraught father-daughter relationship and the father’s work to redefine himself.” –Foreword Kevin Roose, The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence (FSG) “Clear-eyed, deeply reported, and brisk, Roose’s account is an indispensable window into how the world arrived at a precarious technological inflection point.” –Publishers Weekly T. Geronimo Johnson, The Occidental Book of the Dead (William Morrow) “Johnson’s take on history, his political commentary, and humor read like jazz, as, with this book in particular, he plays with the novel as a form, bending notes, making new music.” –Attica Locke David Treuer, The Savage Mind: An American Legacy (Little Brown) “Treuer’s elegiac narrative probes how family intersects with systems of power, and taps the deepest wells of feeling.
It’s a singularly powerful work.” –Publishers Weekly Kimberly Blaeser, Red Ants: Stories (Counterpoint) “The spectacular prose debut by prize-winning poet Blaeser centers the stories of Anishinaabe people, who defy simple categorization, just like Blaeser’s writing.” –Booklist Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack (NYRB) “There are few modern tales of first love and its disillusions that are as thoroughly realised, as brilliantly lewd, and as hilariously satisfying.” –Rachel Cusk
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