Marlon James, Chloe Benjamin, Emily Wilson, and more: 21 new books out today!

September 1st marks, emotionally at least, the beginning of fall. And with it comes that reliable onslaught of literature for which we have been waiting all year. The month starts with a bang, delivering a new Marlon James, Chloe Benjamin, Emily Wilson, and Amanda Peters, all in one decisive blow. That TBR pile is about to be sky-high: read on for the full list below!

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Marlon James, The Disappearers
(Riverhead)

“A harrowing book, to be sure, but never nihilist, or defeatist, or cynical. Its joy in ultimate survival comes through.”
–The Atlantic

Chloe Benjamin, Under Story
(Putnam)

“Wondrous, wildly ambitious, an epic love story.”
–Ann Napolitano

Emily Wilson, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
(Liveright)

“Wilson’s interest is wide-ranging, moving with elegance and insight across genres and millennia. With wit, passion and clarity, she invites us into each of these fascinating subjects.”
–Madeline Miller

Amanda Peters, The Birthing Tree
(Catapult)

“A tender story of self-discovery and the power of generations of women.”
–Publishers Weekly

Pilar Quintana, The Bitch
(Riverhead)

“A perfect book.”
–Kiran Desai

Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
(Scribner)

“The book excels as a masterful dissection of Cohn’s strange, contradictory, and immoral character.”
–Publishers Weekly

Ed. by Julie Buntin & Rebecca Knight, Notes to New Mothers
(W. W. Norton)

“Brave, unexpected, and revelatory, Notes to New Mothers offers a new map of motherhood as both a singular and communal experience.”
–From the publisher

Robert Harris, Agrippa
(Doubleday)

“A gripping tale of ancient Rome’s descent into dictatorship.”
–From the publisher

Jon Ronson, The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
(Riverhead)

“Fantastic and intensely of-the-moment, The Castle explores the nature of male anxiety, the spiralling delusions of the internet, the destructive allure of anti-woke defiance…and so many other currents that are currently roiling our existence.”
–Patrick Radden Keefe

Ruthvika Rao, All Our Evenings
(Flatiron)

“A triumph of storytelling—a deeply affecting, atmospheric, haunting novel that explores the destructive nature of passionate love and the long shadows cast by our most emotional choices.”
–Lillian Li

Glyn Morgan, The Rise and Fall of American Europe
(Polity Press)

“A brilliant book that makes an outstanding contribution to the study of transatlantic relations.”
–The Irish Times

Abdelrahman ElGendy, Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
(Hogarth)

“A beautifully written portrait of a radical political awakening.”
–Hanif Abdurraqib

Mr. Beast and James Patterson, The Most Dangerous Games
(William Morrow)

“An unputdownable survival thriller about what people will do to become The One who can save the world.”
–From the publisher

Thom Gunn, The Man With Night Sweats: Poems
(FSG)

“Perhaps his most wary, moving, personal book to date.”
–Times Literary Supplement

Izabella Scott, The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
(FSG)

“A riveting, brilliant account of a court case in which a woman accused her best friend of impersonating a man during sex, and won.”
–From the publisher

Emily Skaja, Black Lake: Poems
(Graywolf)

“Emily Skaja’s poems relentlessly convey the overwhelm of grief in ways that are truly breathtaking.”
–Roxane Gay

Moshe Sakal, The Diamond Setter
(Other Press)

“A gloriously immersive journey into different cultures.”
–Forward

Hieu Minh Nguyen, Staying Still: Poems
(Tin House)

“Exquisite poems that oscillate with a dancer’s grace between brutally honest confession and deeply witty humor.”
–Danez Smith

Jon Wilson, Out of Chaos: How the Nation State Emerged from the Ruins of World War II
(Basic Books)

“This is a brilliant, very necessary rethinking of global history not as globalization but as a global condition in which nation states became the key global actors.”
–David Edgerton

Diane Williams, I Liked Rex
(NYRB)

“It is fresh, happy and peculiar—or is it we who are refreshed, happy and more peculiar than before after reading her?”
–Lydia Davis

Timothy W. Ryback, 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy
(Atlantic Monthly Press)

“An utterly gripping and suspenseful account of how elected leaders can make use of a democracy to destroy a democracy.”
–Margaret Talbot