A new George Saunders out today: what more could anyone possibly want? And yet, that’s just the beginning of our week’s delivery of thrilling new titles: there’s another rigorous and deeply investigated work about the Bernie Goetz subway shootings, a collection of stories by Camille Bordas, poems by Caleb Femi, and so much more. Happy reading, and happy Tuesday!
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George Saunders, Vigil
(Random House)
“Saunders makes the all-but-impossible look effortless.”
–Jonathan Franzen
Heather Ann Thompson, Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
(Pantheon)
“A comprehensive account of a vicious outburst that shook New York four decades ago.”
–Kirkus
Camille Bordas, One Sun Only: Stories
(Random House)
“The prose is exact, unshowy, funny when it hurts to be, and tender without asking for mercy. These stories don’t close so much as continue inside you.”
–Morgan Talty
Tatiana Țîbuleac, trans. by Monica Cure, The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes
(Deep Vellum)
“A wryly tender exploration of grief, rage, and the fraught process of repairing a broken parent-child relationship.”
–Publishers Weekly
Stephen Fishbach, Escape!
(Dutton)
“Stephen Fishbach writes with great energy and humor, as well as a deep understanding of human longing.”
–Jonathan Safran Foer
Matthew F. Delmont, Until the Last Gun is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul
(Viking)
“Meticulously researched and beautifully written … With masterful storytelling and graceful prose.”
–BookPage
Julian Sancton, Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
(Crown)
“A deeply reported adventure, a study in obsession, and a thoroughly engrossing read.”
–Susan Orlean
Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
(William Morrow)
“A deftly rendered, engrossing multigenerational work of magical realism that integrates 20th-century Chinese history, complex family ties, and lingering traumas.”
–Library Journal
Sara Stridsberg, trans. by Deborah Bragan-Turner, Beckomberga
(FSG)
“A haunting novel of a woman’s lifelong witness to her father’s illness, and Stockholm’s mythic mental hospital.”
–From the publisher
Caleb Femi, Poor: Poems
(MCD)
“Caleb’s talent calls for a global stage.”
–Virgil Abloh
Susan Wise Bauer, The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
(St. Martin’s)
“Eye opening, timely, and unexpectedly entertaining, The Great Shadow tells a vivid story about sickness and our responses to it, from ancient times until the last decade.”
–Dr. Leanna Wen
Heather Rose, A Great Act of Love
(Summit Books)
“Sumptuous … This is a treat for historical fiction fans.”
–Publishers Weekly
Fatima Bhutto, The Hour of the Wolf
(Scribner)
“With otherworldly tenderness and the help of her Jack Russell terrier, Fatima Bhutto moves on from a cruel romance.”
–Ada Calhoun
William J. Mann, Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
(Simon and Schuster)
“A meticulous and humane reconsideration of one of America’s most sensationalized unsolved murders … Mann sets out to restore complexity and dignity to a woman long reduced to tabloid caricature.”
–Publishers Weekly
Olivier Norek, The Winter Warriors
(Atlantic Monthly)
“Timely, thrilling, and deeply affecting … [A] tour de force.”
–The Independent
Emi Yagi, trans. by Yuki Tejima, When the Museum is Closed
(Soft Skull)
“Yagi’s characters and the world they inhabit are as inimitably charming as they are whimsical … A magical love story couched in absurdist fabulism.”
–Kirkus
Robert Polito, After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace
(Liveright)
“Encyclopedic yet concise, it is an ideal listening companion and a definitive guide to Dylan’s many reinvention.”
–Lucy Sante
Liz Allan, In Bloom
(Simon and Schuster)
“A smart look at teen culture, the inner workings of status, and the importance of true friendship. If ever there was a book to which one could consider head banging, this might be it.”
–Town and Country
Jason Zengerle, Hated By All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind
(Crooked Media Reads)
“A riveting, wry, disturbing portrait of the man who made the Trump Age possible.”
–Jon Favreau
Aoife Josie Clements, Persona
(Littlepuss Press)
“A nightmarishly realistic and immersively terrifying journey, forcing the reader to take a long, hard look at late-stage capitalism, internet obsession, even what it means to be human.”
–Booklist
