New Books in Literature

Interviews with Writers about their New Books

Arts
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Bryn Turnbull, "The Woman before Wallis" (Mira ...
Most modern Americans can identify the names Wallace Simpson and Gloria Vanderbilt. But Simpson was not the first divorced American to win the heart of Great Britain’s future if short-reigned King Edward VII...
38 min
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Melissa Faliveno, "Tomboyland: Essays" (Topple ...
Faliveno examines a vast array of intersecting (and intersectional!) human experiences...
64 min
1128
Yxta Maya Murray, "The World Doesn't Work that ...
The short stories in this excellent collection are inspired by recent headlines and court cases in America....
34 min
1129
Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathem...
There are very few math books that merit the adjective ‘charming.' This is one of them.
54 min
1130
John DeSimone, "Road to Delano" (Rare Bird Book...
It's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human rights, while growers get increasingly violent in trying to prevent unionization....
29 min
1131
Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)
Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place...
52 min
1132
Laura Ruby, "Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind T...
Francesca and Toni are brought to the orphanage when their mother suffers a breakdown and dies, and their father gets involved with a new woman...
32 min
1133
Sonya Bilocerkowycz, "On Our Way Home from the ...
Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...
37 min
1134
Elsa Hart, "The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne" (Min...
Lady Cecily Kay has just returned to England when she encounters Sir Barnaby Mayne. It’s 1703...
33 min
1135
Edward A. Farmer, "Pale: A Novel" (Blackstone, ...
An interview with Edward A. Farmer
27 min
1136
Erika Rummel, "The Road to Gesualdo" (D. X. Var...
The Italian Renaissance introduced—or reintroduced—many valuable concepts to society and culture, giving rise eventually to our modern world...
31 min
1137
Premee Mohamed, "Beneath the Rising" (Solaris, ...
"Beneath the Rising" combines horror, science fiction and fantasy in its portrayal of the complicated friendship of Nick and Joanna (Johnny)...
30 min
1138
Bill LeFurgy, "Into the Suffering City: A Novel...
Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after her own family is murdered....
36 min
1139
Chelsea Wagenaar, "The Spinning Place" (Souther...
Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express...
35 min
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Chanelle Benz, "The Gone Dead" (Ecco, 2019)
Told from several perspectives, The Gone Dead (Ecco, 2019) is a story about family and memory, justice for those who were never given a chance, and some of the wounds caused by racism in America...
35 min
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Nancy Thayer, "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Balla...
Christina Gessler talks with her friend Nancy Thayer about "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Ballantine Books), which was just chosen for O Magazine’s Summer Reading List...
63 min
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Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon ...
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
40 min
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Jessica Winters Mireles, "Lost in Oaxaca" (She ...
After an injury to her hand derails her promising concert career, Camille retreats to her mother’s house and teaches piano to mostly desultory students...
26 min
1144
Emily B. Martin, "Sunshield: A Novel" (Harper V...
A frustrated prince out to make a name for himself, a mysterious young woman who goes by the name of the Sunshield Bandit...
34 min
1145
P. W. Singer and A. Cole, "Burn-In: A Novel of ...
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.
24 min
1146
Ilze Hugo, "The Down Days" (Skybound Books, 2020)
Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested upon publication...
31 min
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Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey...
Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....
60 min
1148
Connie Kronlokhen, "So Are You to My Thoughts" ...
This book is the seventh novel in a series about the Mikkelson siblings and loosely based loosely on the author’s family...
26 min
1149
Sarah Knott, "Mother is a Verb: An Unconvention...
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures?
37 min
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Will Thomas, "Lethal Pursuit" (Minotaur, 2019)
London, 1892. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn have been tasked by the Prime Minister to deliver a satchel to the Vatican...
27 min