Dear Readers, it is once again Tuesday, and that means, as ever, that there are new things to read and rejoice in. And today is no exception, for there are many, many exciting new books to consider. I’ve compiled twenty-six for you below.
You’ll find a number of established names, including the former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, who has a new collection, ; Porochista Khakpour, who has returned with a highly anticipated novel, ; Rufi Thorpe, who is back with a new, unabashedly wild novel; memoiristic and studies of Joni Mitchell, W. H. Auden, and Joan Didion; and many others.
There’s also a slew of other fascinating offerings in fiction and nonfiction, including work by Camille Bordas; the actor and director Griffin Dunne; Jill Ciment with a nuanced exploration of memory and trauma and cultural impulses; and much, much more. It’s an excellent day for new reads, and I hope you’ll add generously to your to-be-read piles with some of these. * “Like on an ayahuasca trip, is delightfully twisted and heartfelt.
If you set a TikTok mukbang at a Crazy Rich Persian wedding, you’d still have a long way to go to capture the extravagant eccentricities of the Milani sisters. Khakpour is a satirist extraordinaire who astutely captures the zeitgeist of a culture and a place where ‘reality’ is just something you livestream and truth is a billion times stranger than fiction.” –Kevin Kwan “ is an audacious, wildly funny, completely unpredictable novel by a.