It’s another Tuesday, and—against the depressing impulses of doomscrollers to begin each day with bad news—I fortunately have news to offer: there’s a veritable salmagundi of new books out today in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In fact, I have no less than twenty-seven to suggest checking out, with an especially strong showing in nonfiction. Below, you’ll find highly anticipated fiction from Akwaeke Emezi, Rachel Cusk, Joseph Earl Thomas, Juliet Escoria, Andrew O’Hagan, Matt Young, and many others.
Frederick Joseph has a new poetry collection on offer. And in nonfiction, Francine Prose offers up a personal look at a significant, yet tumultuous literary period; Michael Nott explores the queer life and poetics of Thom Gunn; Trudier Harris examines the inescapable figure of Bigger Thomas from Richard Wright’s seminal novel, ; Tiya Miles has a new book centered around Harriet Tubman’s dreams, philosophy, and beliefs; and more. It’s a little treasure trove of tomes.
I hope you’ll check out some, or many, of these great new books! * “Multimedia polymath and gender-norm disrupter Emezi...
examines taboo and trauma in their creative work...
Emezi can be counted upon for an ambience of dread and a feverish momentum.” – “ pulls off a brilliant, stark and unsettling feat..
..It pursues and deepens [Cusk’s] lifelong interest in the relationship between art and life in a narrative sequence that also explores fraught alliances between men and women, the nature.
