19 new books to cozy up with this week.
Ah, Tuesday rears its ugly head again. But rest assured, there are some good things that have come out of it. Today, we are greeted by new titles from Laila Lalami, Eileen Myles, Noam Chomsky, and more. Happy reading!
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Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens
(Pantheon)
“Lalami treats this complex, incendiary topic with nuanced consideration and blistering insight.”
–Booklist
Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench
(William Morrow)
“The inventive premise, accessible heroine, and biting wit will have readers eager for more from this talented author.”
–Publishers Weekly
Graham Swift, Here We Are
(Knopf)
“The book’s power comes precisely from the fact that it performs its magic in front of your eyes, leaving nowhere to hide.”
–Financial Times
Shalom Auslander, Mother for Dinner
(Riverhead)
“Graphic situations abound; even the characters are revolted, while, through their often ludicrous stories, Auslander explores the sense of otherness and the value of diversity.”
–Booklist
David Hajdu, Adrianne Geffel
(W. W. Norton)
“A reverberant and eye-opening portrait of an artist going her own way and finally saving herself; highly recommended.”
–Library Journal
Craig Johnson, Next to Last Stand
(Viking)
“Like the greatest crime novelists, Johnson is a student of human nature. Walt Longmire is strong but fallible, a man whose devil-may-care stoicism masks a heightened sensitivity to the horrors he’s witnessed.”
–Los Angeles Times
Eileen Myles, For Now
(Yale University Press)
“[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil . . . is happy to show us the way.”
–NPR
Juan Felipe Herrera, Every Day We Get More Illegal
(City Lights Books)
“Herrera’s formal versatility lends subtlety and nuance to essential political considerations.”
–Publishers Weekly
Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence
(NYRB)
“The well-chosen sentences themselves are worth the price of admission, but Dillon’s encyclopedic erudition and infectious joy in a skillful piece of writing are what stamp this as a treat for literary buffs.”
–Publishers Weekly
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
(Verso)
“Chomsky, longtime activist and emeritus professor of linguistics at MIT, concentrates a fierce attack on the culprit: a heartless, obsessively profit-oriented capitalist system that has prevailed for more than four decades.”
–Kirkus
Elijah Cummings, We’re Better Than This
(Harper)
“A thoughtful and inspiring exhortation to do better by a much-missed leader.”
–Kirkus
Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields
(Scribner)
“Our Bodies, Their Battlefield provides a corrective that is by turns horrific and profoundly moving.”
–The Guardian
Nienke Bakker and Leo Jansen, Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters
(Thames & Hudson)
“His personality shines through in his letters.”
–The Washington Post
Leonard Downie, Jr., All About the Story
(PublicAffairs)
“At a time when the news media itself is increasingly becoming part of the story, this insider take on newsroom culture resonates.”
–Publishers Weekly
Géraldine Schwarz, tr. Laura Marris, Those Who Forget
(Scribner)
“A timely must-read, this brutally honest memoir is also a smart historical analysis and a relevant warning for the future.”
–Booklist
Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
(Verso)
“The book is a thrilling demonstration of what such resistance can look like, by one of the most clear-sighted and unyielding critics writing today. We should all read it.”
–The Guardian
John Luther Adams, Silences So Deep
(FSG)
“Classical music aficionados will most appreciate Adams’s thoughtful recollections.”
–Publishers Weekly
Ernest Freeberg, A Traitor to His Species
(Basic Books)
“The book is above all a compassionate, highly readable account of the 19th-century plight of animals, especially urban animals — and of those who tried to come to their rescue.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Paco Roca, The Winter of the Cartoonist
(Fantagraphics)
“Roca’s massively appealing illustration and masterly sense of narrative make this true story exceptionally compelling.”
–Library Journal
