20 brand new books to pick up today.
And somehow the long weekend is over! I hope this blog post finds you relaxed, well-rested, and ready to read. This week, we’ve got new books from Sigrid Nunez, Claudia Rankine, Ruth Ware, Ross Gay, Jane Fonda, and much, much more to look forward to.
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Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
(Riverhead)
“It takes something more than intelligence to be able to write intelligently … Whatever it is, Sigrid Nunez has it.”
–The New York Times
Claudia Rankine, Just Us
(Graywolf)
“Employing her signature collagelike approach, she avoids polemics, instead earnestly speculating about the possibility of interracial understanding … In Just Us, Rankine the poet becomes an anthropologist.”
–The Atlanic
Ruth Ware, One By One
(Gallery/Scout Press)
“This one is especially timely, given that the terror of isolation is at its heart.”
–Booklist
Jane Fonda, What Can I Do?
(Penguin Press)
“This is a useful and appealing primer on environmental activism.”
–Publishers Weekly
Lucille Clifton, How to Carry Water
(BOA Editions)
“Each poem is always its own world.”
–The New York Times
Marie Ndiaye, tr. Jordan Stump, That Time of Year
(Two Lines)
“NDiaye is writing a literature both innovative and incredible.”
–The New Republic
Mary Cappello, Lecture
(Transit)
“After reading this eloquent book, anyone will agree that, even with the ever-increasing rise of student-directed learning and online education, the lecture is not archaic, but rather waiting for a vital new mode.”
–Publishers Weekly
Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue
(Graywolf)
“A memorable chronicle about ‘the bitterness of exile’ and the endurance of the spirit.”
–Kirkus
Tatiana Ryckman, The Ancestry of Objects
(Deep Vellum)
“Readers of lyrical, genre-bending fiction will be spellbound.”
–Publishers Weekly
Ross Gay, Be Holding
(University of Pittsburgh Press)
“This extraordinary book offers an unforgettable flight from the conventional boundaries of the sentence.”
–Publishers Weekly
Sue Miller, Monogamy
(Harper)
“A salute to Sue Miller for diving into the domestic dramas that play out in many an American family.”
–Minneapolis Star Tribune
M. O. Walsh, The Big Door Prize
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons)
“More than solving societal ills, The Big Door Prize calls attention to the ordinary, hard-won joys of real people.”
–BookPage
Bobbie Ann Mason, Dear Ann
(Harper)
“A writer of power and sympathy, insight and great love for her characters.”
–NPR
Wolf Wondratschek, tr. Marshall Yarbrough, Self-Portrait with Russian Piano
(FSG)
“Wondratschek’s deeply felt meditation on the joys and sorrows of a life in music delivers the goods.”
–Publishers Weekly
Jamie K. McCallum, Worked Over
(Basic Books)
“A sobering analysis of quasi-Orwellian tactics that permeate American work life.”
–Kirkus
Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking
(Pantheon)
“An illuminating portrait of perseverance and determination. A valuable account of an extraordinary man.”
–Kirkus
Daniel Mendelsohn, Three Rings
(University of Virginia Press)
“Bringing together memoir, history, and literary analysis, critic Mendelsohn delivers a fine study of digression, exile, and circularity.”
–Publishers Weekly
Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound
(Grand Central Publishing)
“One of the most feverish imaginations in American letters.”
–The Washington Post
Nick Capodice and Hannah McCarthy, A User’s Guide to Democracy
(Celadon Books)
“[An] informative and appealing civics lesson for first-time voters and old hands alike.”
–Publishers Weekly
Audre Lorde, ed. Roxane Gay, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
(W. W. Norton)
“An essential anthology that challenges our 21st-century social and political consciousness.”
–Kirkus
