There’s a rule in September that every week must include one epically splashy book: this week, Emma Cline’s Switzy is here to fulfill that quota. It’s time for us all to get our hands on the novelist’s buzzy new release, as well as many others, including R. F. Kuang’s Taipei Story, a brand new Alice Hoffman book, as well as many nonfiction titles for those in need. Read on for the full list, and happy Tuesday.
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Emma Cline, Switzy
(Random House)
“This truly profound journey will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.”
–Booklist
R.F. Kuang, Taipei Story
(William Morrow)
“A visceral exploration of language as a bridge and a barrier.”
–Kirkus
Alice Hoffman, The Witches of Cambridge
(Scribner)
“Rich with history, heartbreak, and magic, Hoffman’s tale of privilege and persecution expertly navigates past and present, reality and fantasy, all of it rendered in brilliant detail.”
–Leigh Bardugo
Brian Dillon, Ambivalence
(NYRB)
“Brian Dillon is perennially brilliant, his sentences and stylistic maneuvers brimming with bold ideas; I would happily read him again and again.”
–Max Porter
Megan Giddings, Black Arts: Stories
(Amistad)
“The author earns high marks for this lively, idea-driven collection.”
–Publishers Weekly
Francis Fukuyama, In the Realm of the Last Man
(FSG)
“Fukuyama offers shrewd, provocative analysis of politics, society, and intellectual currents in tart and lively prose.”
–Publishers Weekly
Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen
(Doubleday)
“A heroic, thrilling, and tempestuous voyage.”
–Kirkus
Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, Girlhood, Translated: Understanding Young Women in the Age of Therapy Speak and Self-Diagnosis
(Crown)
“Both a brilliant deciphering of therapy talk and a compassionate reckoning with what gets lost when mental illness becomes the sole language for internal life.”
–Rachel Aviv
Jill Bialosky, Mock Heart: New and Selected Poems
(Knopf)
“To read Jill Bialosky’s Mock Heart: New & Selected Poems is to explore the lyric opulence of a life lived at the nexus of beauty and its blood sister, loss.”
–Diane Seuss
William D. Cohan, Money to Burn: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street
(Portfolio)
“A masterclass in reporting from the hidden power centers of America’s billionaire class.”
–Susan Glasser
Jordan Tannahill, The Living Realm
(FSG)
“A perfectly rendered tale of friendship, affection, and the porous boundary between the living and the dead.”
–Publishers Weekly
Jon Else, Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs
(Harvard University Press)
“An essential account of nuclear hubris and the costs it left uncounted.”
–Kirkus
Priya Parker, The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict
(Riverhead)
“This is a life-giving volume, and Priya emerges as the bright and insightful guide we need.”
–Krista Tippett
Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
(Saga Press)
“Thought-provoking and moving, with wonders that will captivate readers.”
–From the publisher
James Muldoon, Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships
(Faber & Faber)
“In his urgent, humane volume, sociologist James Muldoon urges heightened awareness of our growing emotional ties to AI, and how profit-driven tech firms could manipulate them.”
–The Guardian
Ashley Woo, Wildwood
(Harper Perennial)
“An atmospheric fall debut.”
–Booklist
Saul Williams, Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides
(Haymarket Books)
“Exquisite and essential reading for the revolution from one of our greatest minds.”
–Warsan Shire
Carolyn Forché, Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems
(Scribner)
“This is an essential, mighty volume of attentive, exacting artistry with a redemptive radiance.”
–Booklist
Yukiko Motoya, trans. by Kamil Spychalski, Love at Least
(Soft Skull)
“Motoya threads a stark, unfiltered examination of a woman grappling with mental illness into an offbeat, emotionally charged love story that lingers in the mind.”
–Booklist
