New Books in Literature
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1501
Sarah Pinsker, "A Song for a New Day" (Berkley,...
Pinsker explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a surge in terrorism and a deadly epidemic...
26 min
1502
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothi...
Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...
23 min
1503
Emily Skaja, "Brute" (Graywolf Press, 2019)
"Brute" is a stunning collection of poetry that navigates the dark corridors of trauma found at the end of an abusive relationship...
47 min
1504
Craig DiLouie, "Our War" (Orbit, 2019)
DiLouie's "Our War" is about a second U.S. civil war that starts after the president is impeached and convicted but refuses to step down—feels as if it might be only weeks away...
42 min
1505
Steven Moore, "The Longer We Were There: A Memo...
The reality of war is much more nuanced than the typical narratives might have you believe...
45 min
1506
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1507
Johanna Stoberock, "Pigs" (Red Hen Press, 2019)
Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage...
27 min
1508
Tamara J. Madison, "Threed, This Road Not Damas...
Madison seamlessly bridges the gap between past and present while remaining grounded in the here and now...
35 min
1509
Charles Todd, "A Cruel Deception" (William Morr...
Writing novels—never mind entire series—takes determination, persistence, imagination, and craft...
43 min
1510
H. G. Parry, "The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep...
While all fiction writers can pull characters from their imaginations and commit them to the page, most readers can’t do what Charley Sutherland can: pull characters from the page and commit them to the real world...
38 min
1511
Emily Roberson, "Lifestyles of Gods and Monster...
In this modern version of the myth of Theseus and Ariadne, Ariadne is a complacent Daddy‘s girl when we meet her...
27 min
1512
Talia Carner, "The Third Daughter" (William Mor...
"The Third Daughter" is an essential and compelling read, not least because although set in the late nineteenth century its story is as contemporary as yesterday’s headlines...
36 min
1513
Julie Justicz, "Degrees of Difficulty" (Fomite ...
Ben Novotny was born with a rare chromosomal abnormality that caused profound mental retardation and seizures...
22 min
1514
Jason Bayani, "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019)
"Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani...
40 min
1515
Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Ex...
Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...
63 min
1516
Alan Bradley, "The Flavia de Luce Mystery Serie...
Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII...
30 min
1517
Wiley Cash, "The Last Ballad" (William Morrow, ...
Cash explores the complexities of southern class, race, and gender relations against the backdrop of the 1929 Loray Mill strike...
30 min
1518
John Birmingham, "The Cruel Stars" (Del Rey, 2019)
“I'm a huge fan of the [space opera] genre, but it took me a while to get the confidence to write my own,” Birmingham says.
37 min
1519
K. C. Maher, "The Best of Crimes" (RedDoor Publ...
A man turns himself into the police for kidnapping an underage girl...
29 min
1520
Sofia Grant, "Lies in White Dresses" (William M...
Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth-century United States:..
37 min
1521
Nicholas Walton, "Singapore Singapura: From Mir...
Part travelogue, part history, Walton charts the opportunities and pitfalls confronting small states that have become particularly acute in an era of identity politics and civilizational leadership...
60 min
1522
Peg Alford Pursell, "A Girl Goes into the Fores...
The stories and fables in A Girl Goes into the Forest twist and turn...
35 min
1523
Annalee Newitz, "The Future of Another Timeline...
42 min
1524
Tim Frandy, "Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from ...
First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition...
60 min
1525
Deborah L. Davitt, "The Gates of Never" (Finish...
Davitt explores the intersections of myth, science, and humanity through her beautifully accessible poems...
43 min