Ah, another Tuesday! For my American readers, it’s the weekend after Independence Day, and—whether or not you grilled things, took place in a corybantic hot-dog-eating contest, watched legal and illegal fireworks compete instead, fell into a food coma, protested the ever-questionable flags flying outside of Justice Alito’s home, or just had fun on a day off—the end of all that, sadly, is upon us as a new, normal week unfolds. But there’s much to rejoice about, as well, for there are many, many new books out today to consider picking up, all of which are apposite, in their own ways, for recovering from whatever state the 4th left you in. You’ll find no less than twenty-seven new ones below in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, by celebrated and new authors alike.
There are new poetry collections by Faylita Hicks, who explores the personal, political, and profane as a nonbinary femme writer; and the Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi, whose new book explores past and present, mundane and marvelous. You’ll find exciting fiction by Yoko Tawada, Taffy-Brodesser-Akner, August Thompson, Kevin Barry, and many, many others; today is a particularly rich day for new fiction. And then, of course, there’s a plethora of nonfiction, including Emily Van Duyne’s reimagining of Sylvia Plath’s last years, which attempts to both put Plath to task for her bigotries and to reclaim her as a writer in her own right rather than in relation to Ted Hughes; Sable Yong on the complexity of the .
