New Books - January 2020
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Boulez, Pierre - Music lessons: the Collège de France lectures (translated from the French)
- Brickell, Francesca Cartier - The Cartiers: the untold story of the family behind the jewelry empire
- Coleridge, Nicholas - The glossy years: magazines, museums and selective memoirs
- Cryer, Dan - Forgetting my mother: a blues from the Heartland
- Diaz, Jaquira - Ordinary girls: a memoir
- Dikotter, Frank - How to be a dictator: the cult of personality in the twentieth century
- The dolphin letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and their circle (Saskia Hamilton, ed.) (ebook available)
- Hardyment, Christina - Novel houses: twenty famous fictional dwellings
- Kendi, Ibram X - How to be an antiracist
- Lebrecht, Norman - Genius & anxiety: how Jews changed the world, 1847-1947
- Marsden, Philip - The Summer Isles: a voyage of the imagination
- Mastropolo, Frank - Ghost signs: clues to downtown New York's past
- Moorehead, Caroline - A house in the mountains: the women who liberated Italy from fascism
- O'Connell, John - Bowie's bookshelf: the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Paul, Celia - Self-portrait
- Platt, Adam - The book of eating: adventures in professional gluttony
- Richardson, Kristen - The season: a social history of the debutante
- Russell, Gareth - The ship of dreams: the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era
- Shlaes, Amity - Great society: a new history
- Simpson, Glenn R - Crime in progress: inside the Steele dossier and the Fusion GPS investigation of Donald Trump
- Sklenicka, Carol - Alice Adams: portrait of a writer
- Smith, Douglas - The Russian job: the forgotten story of how America saved the Soviet Union from ruin
- Smith, Hannah Lucinda - Erdoğan rising: the battle for the soul of Turkey
- Spiegel, Maura - Sidney Lumet: a life
- Stafford, David - Oblivion or glory: 1921 and the making of Winston Churchill
- Thant Myint-U - The hidden history of Burma: race, capitalism, and the crisis of democracy in the 21st century
- Tinniswood, Adrian - The house party: a short history of leisure, pleasure and the country house weekend
FICTION
- Alcott, Kathleen - America was hard to find: a novel
- Barnes, Julian - The man in the red coat
- Clinch, Jon - Marley: a novel
- Cornwell, Bernard - Sword of kings
- Coulson, Christine - Metropolitan stories: a novel
- Forbes, Curdella - A tall history of sugar
- Krasznahorkai, László - Baron Wenckheim's homecoming (translated from the Hungarian)
- Matthews, Owen - Black sun: a novel
- Merullo, Roland - Once night falls
- Price, Steven - Lampedusa
- Ruta, Domenica - Last day: a novel
- Stephenson, Neal - Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: a novel
- Thomas, Scarlett - Oligarchy
- Williams, Niall - This is happiness
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section of the list.
MYSTERIES
- Beaton, M. C. - Beating about the bush*
- Carr, Jack - True believer: a thriller
- Chiara, Piero - The bishop's bedroom (translated from the Italian)
- De Castrique, Mark - Murder in Rat Alley: a Sam Blackman mystery
- Estleman, Loren D. - When old midnight comes along: an Amos Walker novel
- Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May: the lonely hour*
- Furst, Alan - Under occupation: a novel (ebook available)
- Griffiths, Elly - Now you see them*
- Lindsay, Jeffry P - Just watch me: a novel
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The peppermint tea chronicles: a 44 Scotland Street novel
- McDermid, Val - How the dead speak
- Perry, Thomas - A small town: a novel
- Regan, Lisa - Vanishing girls
- Singh, Nalini - A madness of sunshine
- Tursten, Helene - Winter grave (translated from the Swedish)
- Williams, Andrew - Witchfinder
- Wright, Erica - Famous in Cedarville
- * Indicates a British mystery
STORY COLLECTIONS
- Armfield, Julia - Salt slow: stories
- Brown, Larry - Tiny love: the complete stories of Larry Brown
- Hill, Joe - Full throttle: stories
- L'Heureux, John - The heart is a full-wild beast: and maketh many wild leaps: new and selected stories
- Lutz, Gary - The complete Gary Lutz
- Washington, Bryan - Lot: stories
POETRY
- Aidt, Naja Marie - When death takes something from you give it back: Carl's book
- Hacker, Marilyn - Blazons: new and selected poems, 2000-2018
- Heller, Michael - Telescope: selected poems
- Kaufman, Bob - Collected poems of Bob Kaufman
- Lowell, Robert - The dolphin: two versions, 1972-1973
- McHugh, Heather - Feeler
- Shaughnessy, Brenda - The octopus museum: poems
- Smart devices: 52 poems from the Guardian 'poem of the week'
- Solie, Karen - The Caiplie Caves
- See more recent poetry arrivals in the stacks section of the list.
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Banerjee, Abhijit V. - Good economics for hard times
- Brook, Timothy - Great state: China and the world
- Cruikshank, Dale P - Discovering Pluto: exploration at the edge of the solar system
- Dry, Sarah - Waters of the world: the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole
- Dubois, Laurent - Freedom roots: histories from the Caribbean
- Gardini, Nicola - Long live Latin: the pleasures of a useless language
- Goddard, Linda - Savage tales: the writings of Paul Gauguin
- Havil, Julian - Curves for the mathematically curious: an anthology of the unpredictable, historical, beautiful, and romantic
- Hewitt, Kathleen - Plenty under the counter
- Langfitt, Frank - The Shanghai free taxi: journeys with the hustlers and rebels of the new China
- Macfarlane, Robert - Ness
- Mandelbaum, Michael - The rise and fall of peace on Earth
- Marcus, Sharon - The drama of celebrity
- McKeever, William - Emperors of the deep: sharks—the ocean's most mysterious, most misunderstood, and most important guardians
- Nelson, Anne - Shadow network: media, money, and the secret hub of the radical right
- Perry, Alex - The good mothers: the true story of the women who took on the world's most powerful mafia
- Piper, David - Trial by battle
- Takei, George - They called us enemy
- Verrocchio: sculptor and painter of Renaissance Florence (Andrew Butterfield, ed.)
- Weiss, Daniel H - In that time: Michael O'Donnell and the tragic era of Vietnam
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE, BELLES LETTRES
- Bazlen, Roberto - Notes without a text: and other writings (edited and with an introduction by Roberto Calasso; translated from the Italian) 858 B
- Cole, Sarah - Inventing tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the twentieth century 823 W
- Doyle, Brian - One long river of song: notes on wonder 824 D
- Ellison, Ralph - The selected letters of Ralph Ellison 92 E475 E
- Kavan, Anna - Machines in the head: selected short writing 820.81 K
- London review of books: an incomplete history 820.5 L OVERSIZE
- Lynch, Thomas - The depositions: new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be 824 L
- Palmer, Daryl W - Becoming Willa Cather: creation and career 823 C
- Ruefle, Mary - On imagination 824 R
- Woolf, Virginia - Genius and ink: Virginia Woolf on how to read 820.4 W
FICTION
- Allen, Jane - I lost my girlish laughter (republished 1938 Hollywood novel) F A
- The big book of reel murders: stories that inspired great crime films (Otto Penzler, ed.) F B
- Mori, Toshio - Yokohama, California (1949; first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American) F M
- Rhinehart, Luke - The dice man F R
- Women's weird: strange stories by women, 1890-1940 (Melissa Edmundson, ed.) F W
POETRY
- Berman, David - Actual air 821 B
- The Cubist poets in Paris: an anthology (L.C. Breunig, ed.) 841.08 C
- Burnside, John - The music of time: poetry in the twentieth century 809.1 B
- Pascoli, Giovanni - Selected poems of Giovanni Pascoli (19th-early 20th-century, translated from the Italian) 851 P
- Poet of the body: New York's Walt Whitman: an exhibition based on the Walt Whitman collection of Susan Jaffe Tane on the occasion of the bicentennial anniversary of Whitman's birthday (Grolier Club) 821.09 W
BOOKS & READING
- Dubansky, Mindell - The proper decoration of book covers: the life and work of Alice C. Morse 686 D OVERSIZE
- Pettegree, Andrew - The bookshop of the world: making and trading books in the Dutch golden age 010 P
- Smith, Steven Carl - An empire of print: the New York publishing trade in the early American republic 070.5 S
WRITING
- Burroway, Janet - Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft 808.3 B
- Hall, Trish - Writing to persuade: how to bring people over to your side 808 H
- Root, Neil - Covering darkness: writing true crime 808.3 R
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Pity the reader : on writing with style 808.3 V
ART
- Choi, Connie H - Black refractions: highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem 708.1 C
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Neue Galerie) 709.2 K
- Making marvels: science and splendor at the courts of Europe 745 M
- Olson, Roberta J. M - Artist in exile: the visual diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville 759.4 H
- Pastoureau, Michel - Yellow: the history of a color 152 P
- Salvadori, Sara - Hildegard von Bingen: a journey into the images 248 S OVERSIZE
- True grit: American prints from 1900 to 1950 (Stephanie Schrader, et al., eds.; Getty Musuem) 769 T
PERFORMING ARTS
- Kapilow, Robert - Listening for America: inside the Great American songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim 782.14 K
- La Chapelle, Peter - I'd fight the world: a political history of old-time, hillbilly, and country music 780.973 L
- The New York Times book of movies: the essential 1,000 films to see HBR 791.4 N
- Perez, Gilberto - The eloquent screen: a rhetoric of film 791.4 P
- Porter, Cole - The letters of Cole Porter 92 P8437 P
FOOD
- Bourdain, Anthony - Anthony Bourdain: the last interview and other conversations 641 B
- Goldstein, Kenneth R - The widower's cookbook : how a kitchen neophyte learned to plan, shop, and cook healthy meals 641.5 G
- Koenig, Leah - The Jewish cookbook 641.5 K
- Zanini De Vita, Oretta - Encyclopedia of pasta 641 Z
ANTIQUITY
- Fischer, Thomas - Army of the Roman emperors 355 F OVERSIZE
- Pollitt, J. J - Art and experience in classical Greece 709.38 P
- Scheidel, Walter - Escape from Rome : the failure of empire and the road to prosperity 330.94 S
- Shaw, Ian - Ancient Egypt: a very short introduction 932 S
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.
HISTORY
- Carr, Matthew - The savage frontier: the Pyrenees in history and the imagination 940.2 C
- Eaton, Richard Maxwell - India in the Persianate age, 1000-1765 954 E
- Gonzalez, Johnhenry - Maroon nation: a history of revolutionary Haiti 972.94 G
- Hall, David D. - The Puritans: a transatlantic history 285.9 H
- Lee, Erika - America for Americans: a history of xenophobia in the United States 305.8 L
- MacGregor, Iain - Checkpoint Charlie : the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth 943.1 M
- Patterson, Orlando - The confounding island: Jamaica and the postcolonial predicament 972.92 P
- Popkin, Jeremy D. - A new world begins: the history of the French Revolution 944.04 P
- Written in history: letters that changed the world (Simon Sebag Montefiore, ed.) 808.86 W
WAR
- David, Saul - The force: the legendary special ops unit and WWII's mission impossible 940.54 D
- Gwynne, S. C - Hymns of the Republic: the story of the final year of the American Civil War 973.7 G
- La Rocca, Donald J - How to read European armor 399 L
- Moorhouse, Roger - First to fight: the Polish War 1939 940.53438 M
- Roberts, Andrew - Leadership in war: essential lessons from those who made history 303.3 R
- The Times Great War letters: correspondence from the First World War (James Owen and Samantha Wyndham, eds.) 940.342 T
- World War II : map by map (Peter Snow / Smithsionian Institution) 940.549 W OVERSIZE
CIVIL RIGHTS / U.S. RACE RELATIONS
- Asim, Jabari - We can't breathe: on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival 305.88 A
- Bell, Janet Dewart - Lighting the fires of freedom: African American women in the Civil Rights Movement 323.4 B
- Euchner, Charles C - Nobody turn me around: a people's history of the 1963 March on Washington 323.1 E
- Singh, Nikhil Pal - Black is a country: race and the unfinished struggle for democracy 323.1 S
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- O'Mara, Margaret Pugh - The Code: Silicon Valley and the remaking of America 338.7 O
- Wasserman, Janek - The marginal revolutionaries : how Austrian economists fought the war of ideas 330.1 W
- Zuboff, Shoshana - The age of surveillance capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power 306.3 Z
- Zuckerman, Gregory - The man who solved the market 332.6 Z
LAW
- Greenhouse, Linda - The U.S. Supreme Court: a very short introduction 347.99 G
- Robin, Corey - The enigma of Clarence Thomas 347.99 R
- Solinger, Rickie - The abortionist: a woman against the law 363.4 S
PENOLOGY
- Eisen, Lauren-Brooke - Inside private prisons: an American dilemma in the age of mass incarceration 365 E
- Policing the Black man: arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment (edited and with an introduction by Angela J. Davis) 305.88 P
- Venters, Homer - Life and death in Rikers Island 365 V
PSYCHOLOGY
- Horwitz, Allan V. - PTSD : a short history 616.8 H
- Parks, Tim - Out of my head: on the trail of consciousness 153 P
- Robb, Richard G. - Willful: how we choose what we do 153.8 R
URBAN STUDIES
- Cohen, Lizabeth - Saving America's cities: Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age 307.76 C
- Sennett, Richard - Building and dwelling: ethics for the city 307.76 S
- Vasudevan, Alex - The autonomous city: a history of urban squatting 307.76 V
SCIENCE
- Abulafia, David - The boundless sea: a human history of the oceans 551.4 A
- Raza, Azra - The first cell: and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last 616.9 R
- Saini, Angela - Superior: the return of race science 575.1 S
- Scales, Helen - Eye of the shoal: a fishwatcher's guide to life, the oceans and everything 597 S
- Wolfe, Audra J. - Freedom's laboratory: the Cold War struggle for the soul of science 509 W
BIOGRAPHY
- Keith, Phil - All blood runs red: the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy 92 B9358 K
- Meinhardt, Maren - Alexander von Humboldt: how the most famous scientist of the Romantic Age found the soul of nature 92 H919 M
- Ogden, Alan - Master of deception: the wartime adventures of Peter Fleming 92 F5986 O
- Segev, Tom - A state at any cost: the life of David Ben-Gurion 92 B4564 S
- Stein, Sarah Abrevaya - Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century 920 L6675 S
- Washington, Eric K. - Boss of the grips: the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal 92 W7241 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Coulmas, Florian - Identity: a very short introduction 128 C
- Deleuze, Gilles - Expressionism in philosophy: Spinoza 199 S
- Eckhart, Meister - Meister Eckhart, mystic and philosopher (trannslations and commentary by Reiner Schürmann) 189 S
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - Friedrich Nietzsche on rhetoric and language: with the full text of his lectures on rhetoric published for the first time 808 N
RELIGION
- Goodman, Martin - Josephus's The Jewish war: a biography 933 G
- Miles, Jack - Religion as we know it: an origin story 200 M
- Ryrie, Alec - Unbelievers: an emotional history of doubt 211 R