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 »
The Final CurtainKeigo Higashino, trans. from the Japanese by Giles Murray. Minotaur, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-76752-3
Tokyo police detective Kyoichiro Kaga discovers an unsettling personal connection to a tricky murder case in the brilliantly twisty fourth entry in Higashino’s series (after 2022’s A Death in Tokyo). Kaga’s cousin, Shuhei Matsumiya, a detective with a separate division of the Tokyo police, ... Continue reading »
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorJordan Peele. Random House, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-24379-4
For this electrifying anthology, horror movie director Peele (Get Out: The Annotated Screenplay) brings together 19 Black authors to “give us their Sunken Places.” The cars have eyes in N.K. Jemisin’s “Reckless Eyeballing,” about a corrupt police officer named Carl who gets his comeuppance ... Continue reading »
Throne of the FallenKerri Maniscalco. Little, Brown, $29 (576p) ISBN 978-0-316-55729-0
Maniscalco makes her adult fiction debut with a seductive standalone romantasy set in the world of her bestselling YA series, Kingdom of the Wicked. Lennox, the Unseelie King, invites the Prince of Envy into a deadly game of riddles with an unknown group of dangerous players. To protect his demon co... Continue reading »
Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and RussiaNora Krug. Ten Speed Graphic, $25.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-984-86244-0
Side-by-side first-person narratives—one Ukrainian, one Russian—depict in heartbreaking detail the devastation of the war in Ukraine in this visceral work of graphic journalism from National Book Critics Circle Award winner Krug (Belonging). The narrative is structured as a dual week-by-wee... 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 »
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to AgrippaAnthony Grafton. Harvard Univ, $39.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-674-65973-5
Historian Grafton (Inky Fingers) offers a superb account of the astrologers, alchemists, and sorcerers who practiced “natural magic” in Europe from the Middle Ages through early modernity. Grafton demonstrates that, while magical practice was already ubiquitous, what was innovative about th... Continue reading »
Lidia’s from Our Family Table to Yours: More than 100 Recipes Made with Love for All OccasionsLidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali. Knopf, $35 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-65742-2
To Italian cooking legend Bastianich and her daughter Manuali (who most recently collaborated on Lidia’s A Pot, a Pan, and a Bowl), food is “an expression of love and caring”—especially cooking for and eating with family. In what may be her most personal work to date, Bastianich shares reci... 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 »
Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School EqualityVaunda Micheaux Nelson, illus. by Alex Bostic. Carolrhoda, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-7284-1923-7
Micheaux Nelson and Bostic’s information-packed picture book examines an overlooked story of civil rights that occurred across town from the school where Ruby Bridges would become the public face of school desegregation on Nov. 14, 1960. On the same day, New Orleans first graders Gail Etienne, Tessi... Continue reading »
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