We’re easing out of one of the most intense bursts of fiction publishing I’ve ever witnessed. The flood of enormous, eagerly awaited novels rushed from printers into readers’ hands, almost non-stop. Now the rhythm eases a touch, at least for that genre, and this week we pivot toward a rich lineup of nonfiction works. Meghan O’Rourke, Zaina Arafat, Blake J. Harris, and Lawrence Wright are among the seasoned authors with fresh releases this week. Keep scrolling for the full slate, and enjoy your Tuesday!
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Meghan O’Rourke, The Story of the Body: Poems of Illness and Recovery (W. W. Norton)
“This is essential reading for all.”
–Ocean Vuong
Zaina Arafat, Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope (Little Brown)
“A book that is as moving as it is electric in its voice.”
–Jay Griffiths
Philippa Gregory, Royal Witch (William Morrow)
“Richly researched … Uncovers a surprising number of truths.”
Blake J. Harris, Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David (Dey Street Books)
“This is a detailed, tasty history of television that also stands as a vivid portrait of a brilliant comedian.”
–Booklist
Lawrence Wright, Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood (Knopf)
“Redemption gripped me like the best crime novel and left me fundamentally changed.”
–Belle Burden
Pol Guasch, trans. by Mara Faye Lethem, Paradise Burns (FSG)
“Seems destined to be remembered as one of the finest, most perceptive novels about friendship in recent memory. Heartbreaking and true: a major achievement from a young writer.”
Thomas Frank, The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America’s Biggest Racket (Penguin Press)
“A sharp examination of how cherished American ideals mask inequality.”
Lisa Kleypas, Queen of Lombard Street (Avon)
“Dazzling and transformative.”
–Cosmopolitan
Laurence Leamer, Ladies Man: The Careless Heart of John F. Kennedy (Putnam)
“The book blends character study with a crucial historical understanding of Camelot, offering a mature look at an iconic era.”
–Mark Olshaker
Sam Riviere, Doppelgänger (Catapult)
“What holds all that whimsy and knowledge together is Riviere’s wonderfully distinctive imagination.”
–Kirkus
Paris Marx, Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires (Riverhead)
“Timely and compelling, this revealing account is hard to ignore.”
–Publishers Weekly
Alex Woodroe, Tatratea (Clash)
“Readers who enjoy surreal horror will devour this strange coming-of-age tale.”
–Library Journal
Isabella Weber, Anti-Fascist Economics: In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy (Random House)
“Offers a urgent reminder of how economic precarity undermines democracy and clearly explains why we must secure the material basis for freedom. A vital read for these troubling times.”
J. Vanessa Lyon, Blackness Thirteen Ways: Art, Life, & the Revisions of a Mulatta Lesbian (Pantheon)
“A masterful work of chiaroscuro genius. Lyon’s prose is as delightful as it is inimitable.”
Lindsay Turner, Middle Slope: Poems (FSG)
“These poems, like the peaks they describe, wander yet land with purpose, modest yet masterful, tangible yet transcendent.”
–Maggie Milner
Lindsey Fitzharris, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes (FSG)
“With just the right measure of tantalizing, Fitzharris resurrects the earliest murder cases where science stepped into the courtroom. Captivating and fabulous.”
K-Ming Chang, Needlemouth (Simon and Schuster)
“Chang offers another boldly grotesque coming-of-age tale… as lyrical and disorienting as ever.”
Helen Betya Rubinstein, Feels Like Trouble: Provocations on Writing, Teaching & Power (University of New Orleans Press)
“A riveting indictment, startling in its revelations about the pressure to conform to what the culture deems as ‘good writing.’”
–Vivian Gornick
Chase Twichell, The World it Was: Poems (Copper Canyon)
“An elegiac collection that stares unflinchingly at the planet’s and the body’s degradations, urging us to live fully in the present.”
–From the publisher
Thaddeus Russell, Savior and Seducer: A Renegade History of the United States in the World (Atlantic Monthly Press)
“A well-argued, fresh way to view America’s role in the world from its beginnings to the present.”
–Kirkus
