Rebecca Solnit, Vigdis Hjorth, Terry Tempest Williams, and more: 23 new books out today!

Some stunning nonfiction, some scintillating novels: it’s the beginning of a new month, one that promises more sunshine, and more life-giving literature. Rebecca Solnit, Terry Tempest Williams, Benjamin Hale, and Anand Gopal number among our erudite nonfiction authors for the week, and in fiction we have the esteemed Vigdis Hjorth, M. L. Stedman, and Helen Garner, and many, many more. Take a look, happy March, and happy Tuesday.

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Rebecca Solnit, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
(Haymarket Books)

“Solnit’s holistic anatomy of the dynamics of change is precise, compelling, and deeply clarifying.”
–Booklist

Vigdis Hjorth, trans. by Charlotte Barslund, Repetition
(Verso)

“Hjorth writes vividly of the narrator’s teenage confusion and pain, and her lifelong search for comfort. Repetition swells with emotion.”
–Publishers Weekly

Terry Tempest Williams, The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
(Grove Press)

“A frank, passionate, knowledgeable, observant, and entrancing writer of conscience … Exquisite, deeply affecting.”
–Booklist

Álvaro Enrigue, trans. by Natasha Wimmer, Now I Surrender
(Riverhead)

“A major work of historical reclamation … An eloquent rejoinder to the mythos that made two countries while erasing the lives of their original inhabitants.”
–Publishers Weekly

M. L. Stedman, A Far-Flung Life
(Scribner)

“A big, bold story of tragedy and resilience. I was completely swept away.”
–Bonnie Garmus

Helen Garner, Stories
(Pantheon)

“Helen Garner’s stories share characteristics of the postcard … Scenes pass as if viewed from a train—momentarily, distinct, and tantalizing in their beauty.”
–The New York Times Book Review

Jordy Rosenberg, Night Night Fawn
(One World)

“A bravura performance … Rosenberg breaks open a library of silences here.”
–Alexander Chee

Benjamin Hale, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
(Harper)

“An extraordinary story, conveyed and explored by Benjamin Hale with tremendous breadth of perception, immense eloquence, and equal measures of perspective and compassion.”
–Jane Hirshfield

Anand Gopal, Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution
(Simon and Schuster)

“An awesome feat of reporting and storytelling. Gopal has managed to distill a sweeping history of the Syrian revolution into a tale that is rousing, vivid, heartbreaking, and unforgettable.”
–Patrick Radden Keefe

Saba Sams, Gunk
(Knopf)

“A warm, often funny novel about an unconventional partnership … A joy to read.”
–The Times

Albertine Clarke, The Body Builders
(Bloomsbury)

“Exhibits Albertine Clarke’s remarkable gifts – the boldness and precision of her imagination, the breadth of her ethical and intellectual concerns.”
–Katie Kitamura

Jazmine Ulloa, El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
(Dutton)

“A richly-told, eye-opening book that offers truths that all of us should know, about immigration, the border, and ourselves.”
–Beth Macy

A. Natasha Joukovsky, Medium Rare
(Melville House)

“Joukovsky fillets the American dream with the razor-sharp knife it deserves.”
–Isabel Kaplan

Eoghan Walls, Field Notes from an Extinction
(Seven Stories Press)

“Harrowing, shapeshifting, a strange and mesmerizing delight from the first page to the last.”
–Kevin Moffett

Jan Saenz, 200 Monas
(Little Brown)

“By turns lush and biting, this is an intoxicating hometown goodbye novel with a fierce heart and chemistry that won’t quit.”
–Emma Brodie

Ariel Dorfman, Konfidenz
(Other Press)

“A finely tuned investigation into obsession and trust during major worldwide political instability.”
–Library Journal

Lloyd Blankfein, Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs
(Penguin Press)

“Blankfein is scary smart about people, markets, and life generally.”
–Warren Buffet

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Lake Effect
(Ecco)

“A story of desire, jealousy, fragile family bonds, and choices both freeing and haunting, this is a gift from Sweeney.”
–Library Journal

Camonghne Felix, Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
(One World)

“An incisive and rigorous assessment of how people arrive within a moment and what they can make out of it—or how they can take it apart.”
–Hanif Abdurraqib

Kathryn Paige Harden, Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
(Random House)

“A powerful read that stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to think very deeply.”
–Sue Black

Scott Broker, The Disappointment
(Catapult)

“A masterful understanding of human nature distinguishes this sexy debut.”
–Kirkus

Odd Arne Westad, The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings From History
(Henry Holt)

“This may be the most important book you read this year.”
–Nicholas Burns

Carol Bensimon, trans. by Zoë Perry and Julia Sanches, Diorama
(MCD)

“The tangled memories, troubled relationships, and well-crafted depictions of Cecília’s museum dioramas all hang together in Bensimon’s skilled hands.”
–Publishers Weekly