What a fortunate moment it is, for readers: a week filled with fresh releases from Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Michael Lewis, Meghan O’Gieblyn, and a multitude of other distinguished voices. Peruse today’s lineup to discover new titles that are likely to fly off the shelves.
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Barbara Kingsolver, Partita (Harper)
“The arc of a brief, ardent, life-shaping romance, wrapped into what could be the ultimate celebration of art and beauty—the enduring human longing for both.”
Lydia Millet, Fair Ones: A Double Novel (W. W. Norton)
“Millet infuses this entrancing tale with sharp, caustic observations on friendship and love, privilege and obsession, illusion and truth.”
–Booklist
Patricia Lockwood, Agate Head/Stone Soup: Poems (Penguin Books)
“Its vivid attention to the natural world and boundless imagination make it deeply rewarding.”
–Publishers Weekly
Michael Lewis, Blockers (W. W. Norton)
“An insider’s look at the early days of a controversial push to restructure government under the Trump administration.”
–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 stubborn resilience of the human heart.”
–Patrick Ryan
Tracy Daugherty, Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited (St. Martin’s Press)
“A sharp, penetrating portrait of a literary giant.”
–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 sprawling, bottom-up chronicle told from many angles, a spectacular narrative of a rush toward wealth and near national peril.”
Kawai Strong Washburn, The Names of the New World (FSG)
“The prose in The Names of the New World is cerebral and muscular, electric and tender, guiding us through catastrophe with grace and poetry while probing what it means to be human.”
Sarah Perry, Death of an Ordinary Man (Mariner)
“An extraordinary work that glides from the metaphysical to the stark realities of a body’s decline.”
Stephen King & Peter Straub, Other Worlds Than These (Scribner)
“An astonishingly good novel, a testament to the pair’s lasting storytelling partnership.”
Meghan O’Gieblyn, Will and Attention: A Memoir (Doubleday)
“I was immediately captivated by Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Will and Attention, a work that speaks with piercing clarity and heartfelt solace to questions about worth, wrongdoing, intention, and practice that anchor my own sense of the world.”
V. E. Schwab, Victorious (Tor)
“A gripping and nuanced saga whose ending 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’s a natural as a pop-history writer—sharp, witty, and engaging whether he’s dissecting Vermeer or ancient Indian water systems.”
Frank Huyler, The Red Dress (Bellevue Literary Press)
“A suspense-filled, character-driven novel about a fraught father-daughter bond and a man’s effort to redefine himself.”
–Foreword
Kevin Roose, The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence (FSG)
“Clear-eyed, rigorously reported, and brisk in pace, Roose’s account offers an essential window into how we reached a pivotal technological moment.”
–Publishers Weekly
T. Geronimo Johnson, The Occidental Book of the Dead (William Morrow)
“Johnson’s approach to history, his political commentary, and his humor feel like jazz, bending the novel form to create something fresh and alive.”
David Treuer, The Savage Mind: An American Legacy (Little Brown)
“Treuer’s elegiac narration examines how family ties intersect with the machinery of power, reaching into deep emotional wells. It is a truly powerful work.”
Kimberly Blaeser, Red Ants: Stories (Counterpoint)
“The stunning prose debut from a prizewinning poet centers the stories of Anishinaabe lives, defying easy labels just as Blaeser does in her writing.”
Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack (NYRB)
“Among modern tales of first love and its disillusionments, this one stands out for its complete realization, its bold humor, and its satisfying wit.”
