Jayne Anne Phillips, Xochitl Gonzalez, T. C. Boyle, and more: 20 new books out today!

A great week for nonfiction, our week’s bounty includes a memoir by Jayne Anne Phillips, a survey of American men by Jordan Ritter Conn, and a deep dive analysis into one of the world’s most dangerous mysteries, the billionaire Elon Musk. There’s a selection of great looking novels out as well: a new work by Xochitl Gonzalez, T. C. Boyle, Sophie Mackintosh, and more. Read on for the full list below!

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Jayne Anne Phillips, Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir
(Knopf)

“Jayne Anne Phillips writes prose that reads like plainspoken poetry, full of startling and vivid images that bring a vanished world back to life before our eyes.”
–Tom Perrotta

Xochitl Gonzalez, Last Night in Brooklyn
(Flatiron)

“Smart, tough-minded, and passionate: a pleasure from start to finish.”
–Kirkus

T.C. Boyle, No Way Home
(Liveright)

“A relentless, electrifying, noirish tale of seduction, lies, denial, anger, violence, and capitulation.”
–Booklist

Jordan Ritter Conn, American Men
(Grand Central)

“Wise, insightful, and harrowing, American Men will leave readers both shattered and inspired.”
–Jennifer Finley Boylan

Sophie Mackintosh, Permanence
(Avid Reader Press)

“Inventive and convincing … A rich, alluring concept, offering much literary fun.”
–The Guardian

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
(Harper)

“A whirlwind tour through the plans and inspirations of the world’s most self-important man.”
–Malcolm Harris

Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit
(Ecco)

“Prescient and captivating, hilarious and horrifying. A book that enchants and entices and enrages is a rare thing.”
–Bryan Washington

Megan O’Grady, How it Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves
(FSG)

“A remarkable and restless work of clear thinking about mixed feelings.”
–Catherine Lacey

Erin Van Der Meer, The Scoop
(Grand Central Publishing)

“Smart, savage, and tinged with grief, The Scoop is required reading for anyone who has compromised themselves today for a better tomorrow.”
–Ruth Madievsky

Bob Spitz, The Rolling Stones: The Biography
(Penguin Press)

“A must for every fan of the Stones and rock and roll, a work of music history to savor.”
–Booklist

Monika Ostrowska, Squirming: Poems
(Coffee House Press)

“An intimate collection where the domestic, sexual, and cerebral entangle.”
–From the publisher

Roxanne Khamsi, Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
(Riverhead)

“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported.”
–Ed Yong

Caroline Bicks, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
(Hogarth)

“A compulsively readable mix of memoir, biography, and heady analysis of Stephen King’s iconic early works.”
–Paul Tremblay

Manil Suri, A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
(W. W. Norton)

“Manil Suri has written a beautiful memoir that is both compassionate and courageous.”
–Rabih Alameddine

Valerie Fridland, Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents
(Viking)

“Fast-paced and cheerily written despite sometimes heavy subject matter, this is a delightfully easygoing linguistic romp.”
–Publishers Weekly

Erin L. McCoy, Underlake
(Doubleday)

“McCoy’s novel is a thoughtful, ethereal story that sometimes feels as though it came from the eerie depths it describes.”
–Booklist

Albert Camus, trans. by Sandra Smith and Cory Stockwell, Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959
(Knopf)

“Read this book as a guide to loving and a guide to writing. Read it for sustenance.”
–Kirkus

Wolf Haas, trans. by Jamie Bulloch, Short Circuit
(HarperVia)

“A little demonic machine, a hall-of-mirrors contraption that slowly converges upon its twin subjects until they fuse, in an act of intricate, puzzle-minded fabulism.”
–Jim Lewis

Vincent Delecroix, trans. by Helen Stevenson, Small Boat
(Mariner)

“This book challenged me profoundly. It moved me, and stayed with me.”
–Dua Lipa

M Lin, The Memory Museum
(Graywolf)

“A book of astonishing vitality and vision.”
–Megha Majumdar