Mule BoyAndrew Krivak. Bellevue Literary, $17.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-954276-46-8
In one long, musical sentence, Krivak (The Bear) unspools the luminous story of Ondro, a son of Slovak immigrants and the only survivor of a 1929 Pennsylvania coal mine disaster. The narrative traces how the deaths of miners John Chibala and Stefan Bozak and their butties Matty and Emil hav... Continue reading »
The Burning GroundsAbir Mukherjee. Pegasus Crime, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63936-985-0
Mukherjee’s talent for elevating genre tropes suffuses the stellar fifth installment of his 1920s-set Wyndham and Banerjee mystery series (after The Shadows of Men). It’s been three years since British detective Sam Wyndham helped his onetime partner, Indian investigator Surendranath Banerj... Continue reading »
Cyanide ConstellationsSara Tantlinger. Dark Matter, $14.99 trade paper (174p) ISBN 978-1-958598-81-8
The 12 equal parts chilling and exhilarating stories in Tantlinger’s debut collection deliver dread-filled cosmic horror with a richly gothic flavor. The range is wide: there’s eco-horror explicating the consequences of environmental destruction (“As Humans Burn Beneath Us”), a tale of delightfully ... Continue reading »
Fundamentals of Being a Good GirlJulie Murphy and Sierra Simone. Avon, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-333837-1
In this winning romp, bestsellers Murphy and Simone (A Merry Little Meet Cute) perfectly balance heat and sweet. Recent law school grad Maddie Kowalczk has just been dumped by her politician boyfriend when she leaves Los Angeles for Kansas’s Astra University, where she’ll be a political sci... Continue reading »
Fela: The Music Is the WeaponJibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery. Amistad, $48 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-305879-8
This rousing celebration of Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti (1938–1997)—Afrobeat star, truth-teller, commune leader, and frequent “rascal”—blends brisk biographical storytelling with urgent cultural and political history, gorgeous evocations of the power of music and dance, and bursts of bloody violence both fa... Continue reading »
Lola the InterpreterLyn Hejinian. Wesleyan Univ, $18.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8195-0197-4
The wry and sprawling final offering from the late, great Hejinian (Fall Creek) comprises a book-length prose poem in which the speaker moves through the motions and emotions of the “every day,” engaging with a cast of local characters. By doing so, Hejinian and her narrator explore a centr... 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 »
Digital Inc.: From Print to E-Book—Inside the Transformation of the Book IndustryRichard Curtis. Rivertown, $24.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-953943-73-6
Literary agent and former PW contributor Curtis (This Business of Publishing) delivers a stimulating and in-depth chronicle of publishing’s digital revolution. The account begins with a recap of Curtis’s publishing career, during which he launched one of the first e-book publishers... Continue reading »
Weightless: A Doctor’s Guide to GLP-1 Medications, Sustainable Weight Loss, and the Health You DeserveRocio Salas-Whalen. Rodale, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-98120-7
Endocrinologist Salas-Whalen offers a compassionate and comprehensive guide to losing weight with GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. She walks readers through the process of evaluating GLP-1 medications (short for glucagon-like peptide-1, a hormone that regulates blood sugar le... Continue reading »
Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken WorldEdited by Rose Marie Berger. Broadleaf, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 979-8-88983-541-7
These stimulating essays and interviews from the first 50 years of Sojourners magazine, collected by poetry editor Berger (Who Killed Donte Manning?), seek “sabbath rest, contemplation, solitude, simplicity, and communal resilience” in today’s world. Franciscan priest Richard Rohr ... Continue reading »
Yulu’s LinenCao Wenxuan, trans. from the Chinese by Helen Wang, illus. by Suzy Lee. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-3119-9
In this finely wrought picture book portrait of the artistic process, a canvas of “yu-lu-ma—rain-dew linen” seems destined for young Yulu’s brushes, so her father, a frustrated artist who’s nurtured her talent, buys it for her first self-portrait. But when Yulu wakes up the morning after cr... Continue reading »
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