Celebrity memoirs from Bruce Springsteen, Trevor Noah, Lil Wayne, and Carrie Fisher are coming out, plus a Joan Rivers biography and a feminist manifesto co-authored by Gillian Andersen originally scheduled for last spring.
Boyle, Ann Patchett, A. Byatt, Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, and celebrity-adjacent Jonathan Safran Foer with his first novel in over ten years all have new work coming out. The Devourers by Indra Das Del Rey: Ballantine A fantastical debut novel set in Kolkata, a professor encounters a captivating, centuries-old story he cannot resist, one peopled by a mysterious race of shapeshifters. A first novel. Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn Lightright This much buzzed-about and deservedly so debut explores a drought-plagued Jamaica town and the opulent resort next door, sex work and sexuality, work and family and sacrifice.
Clear-eyed and compassionate. Refreshing and funny and empathetic and fucking useful, as per usual. The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura Soho Crime A professional blackmailer posing as a sex worker who loves the anonymity of her work finds herself caught up with a monstrous crime lord who seems to know all her secrets. A debut novel about the end of the bayside world John Steinbeck detailed in Cannery Row and the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay aquarium.
Pond by Claire Louise Bennett Riverhead A debut from Ireland, this novel—the story of an unnamed woman living on the coast going about her daily life—is beautiful and brief. The Race by Nina Allan Titan A second novel from award-winning sci fi veteran and prolific short-story writer Allan, this details an ecologically fraught future and a kidnapped child. Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Morrow New York-based writer and Singapore native Lu-Lien Tan has whipped up a smart, frothy look at four Singapore women in their late twenties on the hunt for wealthy white men and the intersection of class and gender and racial politics.
Its list of contributors is stellar: do not miss this. They are everywhere! They keep us alive! Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott Univ. The Obelisk by N. Patient HM: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich Random Dittrich—the grandson of the surgeon whose novel procedure unwittingly resulted in the permanent amnesia that made Henry Molaison better known as Patient HM famous—harnesses memoir, biography, history, and science journalism to tell the story of his family and of the field neurology.
