BaumgartnerPaul Auster. Grove, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6144-4
Auster (The Brooklyn Follies) offers a profound character study of a man whose advancing years are shaped by mourning and memory. Sy Baumgartner is a 70-year-old philosophy professor at Princeton who, at the novel’s outset, has spent the past decade grieving his beloved wife Anna’s death in... Continue reading »
Where the Dead WaitAlly Wilkes. Atria/Bestler, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-9821-8282-3
Wilkes follows up 2022’s All the White Spaces with a spectacular tale of cold, cannibalism, and consequences. In 1869, William Day inherits command of a ship exploring Arctic waters after several of its senior officers die of scurvy. When the ship is immobilized by ice, its food stores quic... Continue reading »
The Bitter CrownJustin Lee Anderson. Orbit, $19.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-45430-8
In the arresting second Eidyn Saga epic fantasy, Anderson creatively builds on the wild twist at the end of The Lost War. Series protagonist Laird Aranok is now fully aware that King Janaeus, whom he’d once thought of as a best friend, is corrupt, having altered the memories of almost every... Continue reading »
The Serpent and the Wings of Night Carissa Broadbent. Bramble, $29.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-250-34317-8
Broadbent (the War of Lost Hearts trilogy) elevates the familiar fantasy trope of a divinely sponsored tournament to the death in this sweeping duology opener that doubles as an addictive enemies-to-lovers romance. Oraya, a human rescued from her war-ruined childhood home to be raised and trained by... Continue reading »
Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?Chris Oliveros. Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-77046-661-6
Quebecois cartoonist Oliveros (The Envelope Manufacturer), founder of Drawn & Quarterly, takes his provocative title for this scintillating, incisively drawn account of Le front de libération du Québec (FLQ) from a recruitment questionnaire distributed by the separatist guerrilla faction. F... Continue reading »
Hell, I Love EverybodyJames Tate. Ecco, $17.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-330607-3
Quintessential poems by virtuoso of absurdity Tate (The Government Lake: Last Poems) are woven into a whimsical, rollicking, and utterly jarring retrospective that showcases an unparalleled mind. Tate is famed for narratives that are set in the familiar and develop imaginatively, even chaot... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of WarFlorian Illies, trans. from the German by Simon Pare. Riverhead, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-71393-8
“What people in the ’20s desperately needed was love,” according to this kaleidoscopic English-language debut from historian Illies. Following celebrated artists of the decade as they tumble from one bed to another, Illies tracks Pablo Picasso as he flits from his former muse and lover to his former... Continue reading »
Seafood SimpleEric Ripert. Random House, $35 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-44952-3
“I hope as this book inspires you to cook with confidence, you will come to approach seafood with joy, and, most important, with love,” writes chef Ripert (Vegetable Simple), who co-owns the Michelin-starred seafood restaurant Le Bernardin, in this exceptional guide. Through clear photos an... Continue reading »
Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins Jacob L. Wright. Cambridge Univ, $34.99 (300p) ISBN 978-1-108490-93-1
In this landmark study, Wright (War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible), an associate professor of the Hebrew Bible at Emory University, analyzes why and how “the most influential corpus of literature the world has ever known” originated in “a remote region of the ancient wo... Continue reading »
Everybody Has a BodyMolli Jackson Ehlert, illus. by Lorian Tu. Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-2508-5444-5
Employing digestible, body-neutral text in this necessary read, Ehlert explains many ways that bodies can look and behave as they “take us through the world.” Throughout, the repeated statement “everybody has a body” is followed by conversational text that explains how as “we move and play and feel,... Continue reading »
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