A civil rights activist, the author traces the roots of political grievances among many black voters and examines how she believes the Democratic Party has abandoned them.
Blissful Montage: Storiesby Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 13th)
Depicting an emotionally paralyzed worker in a post-apocalyptic society, Maher’s debut, Severance, earned critical acclaim for its precise send-up of capitalism and cold, uneasy tone. Her New Stories In her collection, she leans into quirkiness as she spins tales of women having sex with yetis and hanging out with 100 ex-boyfriends.
fairy taleStephen King (Scribner, 6 September)
A teenager is granted admission to an alternate universe after saving the life of a local weirdo. I will continue. There are plenty of elements to keep the reader occupied, such as the twinkling happy ending.
Cassandra is haunted by her brother’s disappearance in an accident when he was seven years old. Years later, she meets a man with the same name as her brother, beginning her long-running and unsettling quest for her grief.
If I Survivor Youby Jonathan Escoferry (MCD, Sept. 6)
A series of linked stories follow American-born sons as they defy their parents’ expectations and traditions and forge their own paths and identities.
Carla, a Dominican-American woman living in New York, unexpectedly takes time off from work and finds herself sharing her life story in the office of her career counselor.
A scholar reconstructs America’s founding myth from an Indigenous perspective, focusing on the triumphs and contributions of Indigenous communities.
The TV producer, also known as the creator of the HBO series Deadwood, reflects on his volatile childhood, vices and career. The story takes on a bittersweet resonance as Milch receives an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Wenner revisits the story of when he was at the forefront of culture-changing publications.
Lucy by the SeaElizabeth Strout (Random House, September 20)
Strout follows her beloved heroine Lucy Barton, central to her previous novels, as she travels from New York to Maine to roost with her ex-husband during the coronavirus pandemic. Worried about their adult daughters and with the country’s economic and political turmoil, together they reflect on the past and rethink their future family life.
In Germany in the 1790s, a group of poets, playwrights, and philosophers (among them Goethe and Hegel) helped initiate what is now known as Romanticism, a self-centered art philosophy. I was. Wolfe’s previous books include a biography of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and an account of an early attempt to chart the transit of Venus across the Sun.
O’Farrell’s previous novel, Hamnet, which was one of Book Review’s 10 best books of 2020, imagined the life of Shakespeare and his wife. Her new work is set in 16th-century Italy and follows her real-life Lucrezia de Medici, who fell into an unhappy marriage and died shortly thereafter at the age of 16.
On December 24, 1944, the 4th and 29th Marine Regiments, training in the Pacific for the Battle of Okinawa, arranged a football game. The stakes were high, the talent ran deep – of the 65 men, many were college athletes or ended up playing for the NFL Bisinger, known for the “Friday Night Lights.”
Solito: A Memoirby Javier Zamora (Hogarth, 6 September)
The poet Zamora recounts the perilous week-long journey from El Salvador at the age of nine to reunite with her parents in America.
Sue formed an unlikely bond with Ken while in college, but they seemed to have little in common except for their Asian-American descent. Murdered as a Man. The book serves both as a biography of their relationship and as Sue grows as she processes her grief.
The New Yorker writer Mogelson returned to the United States in 2020 after several years covering global terrorism abroad. Since then, he has covered the unrest in Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd. Protest in Portland, Oregon. and the Capitol mob on January 6th. The book is based on his magazine article and provides a snapshot of civil war and polarization across the country.
In her first book, Aviv, a writer for The New Yorker, tackles what scientists do (and don’t quite) understand about mental disorders.
A master of the short story, Means leaps between multiple perspectives comfortably. Title Her story focuses on two exhausted medical workers, while another story is told from the perspective of a dachshund.