Tom Perrotta, Jordan Harper, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more: 20 new books out today!

We’re rounding out the month with a final dose of great literature: stupendous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry all abound. Tom Perrotta’s new novel, Ghost Town, is out today, alongside Emma Copley Eisenberg’s collection of stories, Fat Swim, and Emma Parry’s historical novel Mrs. Benedict Arnold. In nonfiction, we have the resounding biography of beauty-and-business-mogul Mary Kay, a compiled collection of essays about familial estrangement, and Bob Farese’s ode to the medium of water. Happy reading, and happy Tuesday!

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Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town
(Scribner)

“As pure and clean as a wish, or a prayer.”
–Emma Straub

Jordan Harper, A Violent Masterpiece
(Mulholland)

“Conjure[s] an intoxicating atmosphere of glamor and decay, while Harper’s distinct characters elicit deep emotional investment.”
–Publishers Weekly

Mary Lisa Gavenas, Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay
(Viking)

“A remarkable depiction of a transformational businesswoman.”
–Publishers Weekly

Emma Copley Eisenberg, Fat Swim
(Hogarth)

“A lush, radical meditation on the body’s pleasure and potential.”
–Carmen Maria Machado

Suzy Hansen, From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan
(FSG)

“A dizzying tour de force: the simultaneously cosmic and microscopic record of a transformative decade in Istanbul, Turkey, and the world.”
–Elif Batuman

Jimin Han, Dreamt I Found You
(Little Brown)

“A beautifully written modern-day fairytale that interrogates rigid social hierarchies while illuminating the fierce, sustaining power of family connections.”
–Angie Kim

Ed. by Jenny Bartoy, No Contact: Writers on Estrangement
(Catapult)

“A landmark work around a theme so prominent—and yet so thoroughly ignored—in modern life.”
–Ocean Vuong

Jeyamohan, trans. by Suchitra Ramachandran, The Abyss
(Transit Books)

“An astonishing work … I have read nothing like it in years.”
–The Wall Street Journal

Elisa Tamarkin, Done in a Day: Telex From the Fall of Saigon
(University of Chicago Press)

“The book is like lightning, capturing the madness of that war’s many years into its final few hours.”
–Greg Grandin

Emma Parry, Mrs. Benedict Arnold
(Zando)

“A lush, nuanced exploration of how one woman can tip the scales of history.”
–Emma Brodie

Laura B. McGrath, Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
(Princeton University Press)

“An enlightening study of how agents have shaped the American literary landscape.”
–Publishers Weekly

Ananda Devi, trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman, All Flesh
(FSG)

“An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror.”
–Lucy Rose

Steven J. Ross, The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy
(Bloomsbury)

“Richly researched, impressively annotated, burningly bright.”
–Kirkus

Bob Farese, Jr., A Perfect Medium
(MW Editions)

“Abstract, lyrical photographs paired with sage, poetic texts call attention to our inextricable relationship to water.”
–From the publisher

Bruce Nichols, The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World
(Avid Reader Press)

“Vivid portrait of the writers who launched American literature.”
–Kirkus

Anna Badkhen, To See Beyond: Essays
(Bellevue Literary Press)

“Badkhen wields language like a wide-eyed, percussive magician.”
–Kiese Laymon

Karen Tei Yamashita, Questions 27 & 28
(Graywolf)

“A provocative symphony.”
–Los Angeles Times

Madeline Vosch, Undead: A Memoir of My Suicide
(Beacon Press)

“This story is a hand stretched out, an invitation to belonging, an undead woman wielding the power of telling.”
–‘Pemi Aguda

Linford D. Fisher, Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History
(Liveright)

“A masterful history.”
–Brenda Child

Alexandra Oliva, The Radiant Dark
(SJP Lit)

“Alexandra Oliva is a rare talent, gifting us a sweeping yet intimate vision of what it means to learn we are not alone.”
–Lily Brooks-Dalton