New Books - June 2018
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- The best American magazine writing 2017 (Sid Holt, ed.)
- Agrawal, Roma - Built: the hidden stories behind our structures
- Aronson, Josh - Orchestra of exiles: the story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the one thousand Jews he saved from Nazi horrors
- Barnet, Andrea - Visionary women: how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
- Benson, Michael - Space odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the making of a masterpiece
- Brusatte, Stephen - The rise and fall of the dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world
- Chabon, Michael - Pops: fatherhood in pieces
- Chozick, Amy - Chasing Hillary: ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Cohen, Warren I. - A nation like all others: a brief history of American foreign relations
- Crespino, Joseph - Atticus Finch: the biography: Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Damasio, Antonio R. - The strange order of things: life, feeling, and the making of cultures
- Doherty, Thomas Patrick - Show trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist
- Duberman, Martin B. - The rest of it: hustlers, cocaine, depression, and then some, 1976-1988
- Easterbrook, Gregg - It's better than it looks: reasons for optimism in an age of fear
- Eisner, Mark - Neruda: the poet's calling
- Eizenstat, Stuart - President Carter: the White House years
- Fara, Patricia - A lab of one's own: science and suffrage in the first World War
- Farrow, Ronan - War on peace: the end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence
- Fernholz, Tim - Rocket billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the new space race
- Forsyth, Mark - A short history of drunkenness: how, why, where, and when humankind has gotten merry from the stone age to the present
- Frieda, Leonie - Francis I: the maker of modern France
- Greenblatt, Stephen - Tyrant: Shakespeare on politics
- Hampl, Patricia - The art of the wasted day
- Haskel, Jonathan - Capitalism without capital: the rise of the intangible economy
- Heinrich, Bernd - A naturalist at large: the best essays of Bernd Heinrich
- Hewitt, Catherine - Renoir's dancer: the secret life of Suzanne Valadon
- Hilburn, Robert - Paul Simon: the life
- Huang, Yunte - Inseparable: the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo"
- Itzkoff, Dave - Robin
- Jelley, Jane - Traces of Vermeer
- Johnson, Alex - A book of book lists
- Johnson, Kirk W. - The feather thief: beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century
- Kells, Stuart - The library: a catalogue of wonders
- King, Gilbert - Beneath a ruthless sun: a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - Spring (translated from the Norwegian)
- Kurlansky, Mark - Milk!: a 10,000-year food fracas
- Leadon, Fran - Broadway: a history of New York City in thirteen miles
- Leonhard, Jörn - Pandora's box: a history of the First World War (translated from the German)
- Lloyd Webber, Andrew - Unmasked
- Margolick, David - The Promise and the dream: the untold story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (foreword by Douglas Brinkley)
- McNamara, Eileen - Eunice: the Kennedy who changed the world
- Murphy, M. Lynne - The prodigal tongue: the love-hate relationship between American and British English
- O'Toole, Patricia - The moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the world he made
- Olina, Giovanni Pietro - Pasta for nightingales: a 17th-century handbook of bird-care and folklore (translated from the Italian; foreword by Helen MacDonald)
- Seierstad, Åsne - Two sisters: a father, his daughters, and their journey into the Syrian jihad
- Skidmore, Chris - Richard III: England's most controversial king
- Snyder, Timothy - The road to unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
- Thompson, Laura - Agatha Christie: a mysterious life
- Tremain, Rose - Rosie: scenes from a vanished life
- Vollmann, William T. - No immediate danger
- Weiss, Elaine F. - The woman's hour: the great fight to win the vote
- Winchester, Simon - The perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world
FICTION
- Andrews, Mary Kay - The high tide club
- Bonert, Kenneth - The Mandela plot
- Broder, Melissa - The pisces: a novel
- Buckley, Christopher - The judge hunter
- Darznik, Jasmin - Song of a captive bird: a novel
- Deaver, Jeffery - The cutting edge: a Lincoln Rhyme novel
- Deveraux, Jude - As you wish
- Dolnick, Ben - The ghost notebooks
- Flanagan, Richard - First person
- Genova, Lisa - Every note played: a novel
- Goldammer, Frank - The air raid killer: the first case of Max Heller, Dresden detective
- Hensher, Philip - The friendly ones
- Heti, Sheila - Motherhood
- Huston, Allegra - Say my name: a novel
- John, David - Star of the North: a novel
- Juska, Elise - If we had known
- Kardos, Michael - Bluff: a novel
- Kauffman, Rebecca - The gunners: a novel
- King, Stephen - The outsider: a novel
- Kushner, Rachel - The Mars room: a novel (ebook available)
- Lewis, Phillip - The Barrowfields: a novel
- MacKenzie, Ian - Feast days: a novel
- Malaparte, Curzio - The Kremlin ball: material for a novel (translated from the Italian; New York Review Books)
- McAllister, Tom - How to be safe: a novel
- McCauley, Stephen - My ex-life
- McLain, Paula - Love and ruin: a novel
- Miles, Jonathan - Anatomy of a miracle: the true story of a paralyzed veteran, a Mississippi convenience store, a Vatican investigation, and the spectacular perils of grace
- Ondaatje, Michael - Warlight (ebook available)
- Ortese, Anna Maria - Neapolitan chronicles (translated from the Italian)
- Pears, Tim - The wanderers: a novel
- Poeppel, Amy - Limelight: a novel
- Roberts, Nora - Shelter in place
- Rollins, James - The demon crown
- Sackville, Amy - Painter to the king
- Schulman, Audrey - Theory of bastards
- Shriver, Lionel - Property: stories between two novellas
- Simsion, Graeme C. - Two steps forward: a novel
- Stahl, Lauren - The devil's song: a novel
- Thayil, Jeet - The book of chocolate saints
- Tillman, Lynne - Men and apparitions: a novel
- Van der Vliet Oloomi, Azareen - Call me Zebra
- Weldon, Fay - Death of a she devil
MYSTERIES
- Atkins, Ace - Robert B. Parker's old black magic
- Bell, Ted - Overkill
- Boyle, William - The lonely witness: a novel
- Brett, Simon - The liar in the library*
- Bussi, Michel - Time is a killer (translated from the French)
- Clark, Mary Higgins - I've got my eyes on you: a novel
- Coulter, Catherine - The sixth day
- Ellory, Roger Jon - The devil and the river: a thriller
- Estleman, Loren D. - Black and white ball: an Amos Walker novel
- Fluke, Joanne - Raspberry danish murder
- Fowler, Christopher - Hall of mirrors*
- Fredericks, Mariah - A death of no importance
- Goldhammer, Frank - The air raid killers: the first case of Max Heller, Dresden detective (translated from the German)
- Gray, Alex - Only the dead can tell
- Griffiths, Elly - The dark angel
- Holt, Anne - In dust and ashes (translated from the Norwegian)
- Howe, K. J. - Skyjack: a Thea Paris novel
- Israel, Steve - Big guns: a novel
- Jewell, Lisa - Then she was gone: a novel
- Koryta, Michael - How it happened
- Mackay, Malcolm - For those who know the ending: a novel
- Malliet, G. M. - In Prior's wood: a Max Tudor mystery
- Marsh, Ngaio - Money in the morgue*
- McGowan, Claire - The killing house
- Molloy, Aimee - The perfect mother: a novel
- Morrison, Blake - The executor*
- Nakamura, Fuminori - Cult X (translated from the Japanese)
- Parks, Brad - Closer than you know: a novel
- Perry, Anne - Twenty-one days: a Daniel Pitt novel*
- Pettus, Charlton - Exit strategy: a novel
- Quick, Amanda - The other lady vanishes
- Ramsay, Caro - The suffering of strangers*
- Redhill, Michael - Bellevue Square: a novel
- Tapper, Jake - The hellfire club
- Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Union Square: a gaslight mystery
- Unsworth, Cathi - That old black magic*
- Vargas, Fred - The accordionist (translated from the French)
- Yocum, Robin - A perfect shot: a novel
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Clarke, Brock - The price of the haircut
- Johnson, Charles - Night hawks: stories
- Murnane, Gerald - Stream system: the collected short fiction
- Tolstaya, Tatyana - Aetherial worlds: stories
- Trevor, William - Last stories (ebook available)
- Wideman, John Edgar - American histories: stories
POETRY
- Feinstein, Elaine - The clinic, memory: new and selected poems
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Ferlinghetti's greatest poems
- García Lorca, Federico - Poet in Spain
- Johnson, Denis - The man among the seals; &, Inner weather (his first two books of poems)
- Kooser, Ted - Kindest regards: new and selected poems
- Moten, Fred - The little edges
- Murray, Joan - Drafts, fragments, and poems: the complete poetry (preface by John Ashbery)
- Persian love poetry (Vestta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sheila R. Canby)
- Smith, Tracy K. - Wade in the water: poems
Book Committee Recommendations
- Alagbé, Yvan - Yellow negroes and other imaginary creatures
- Brown, Susan - Scraps: fashion, textiles, and creative reuse
- Costa, James T. - Darwin's backyard: how small experiments led to a big theory
- Eubanks, Virginia - Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor
- Gerges, Fawaz A. - Making the Arab world: Nasser, Qutb, and the clash that shaped the Middle East
- Gessen, Masha - Never remember: searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
- McKenna, Maryn - Big chicken: the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats
- Roth, Alisa - Insane: America's criminal treatment of mental illness
- Sher, Antony - Year of the mad king: the Lear diaries
- Stone, Daniel - The food explorer: the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
- Whistler, Catherine - Raphael: the drawings
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bloom, Harold - Lear: the great image of authority 822.33 C
- Burnside, John - On Henry Miller, or, How to be an anarchist 823 M
- Conversations with Joan Didion 823 D
- MacCabe, Colin - Perpetual carnival: essays on film and literature 809 M
- Nathan, John - Soseki: modern Japan's greatest novelist 895.6 N
- Samway, Patrick H. - Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: a publishing partnership 920 S1939 F
FICTION
- Murnane, Gerald - A million windows F M
- Ortese, Anna Maria - The iguana (translated from the Italian by Henry Martin) F O
- Schulz, Bruno, - Collected stories (newly translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine) F S
- Silver bullets: classic werewolf stories (Eleanor Dobson, ed.; w/ H.C. Andersen, Kipling, Yeats, Saki, more) F S
- Tillman, Lynne - The complete Madame Realism and other stories 828 T
- Tozzi, Federigo - Love in vain: selected stories of Federigo Tozzi (translated from the Italian by Minna Proctor) F T
- Weinzweig, Helen - Basic black with pearls (New York Review Books; first published 1980) F W
POETRY
- Derricotte, Toi - The undertaker's daughter 821 D
- Longley, Michael - The weather in Japan 821 L
- Orr, Gregory - A primer for poets & readers of poetry 808.1 O
LETTERS
- 2 prospectors: the letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark (Chad Hammett, ed.) 920 S5477 T
- The Times great letters: a century of notable correspondence (James Owen, ed.) 070.4 T
- The luck of friendship: the letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin (Peggy Fox & Thomas Keith, eds.) 920 W7276 L
ANTIQUITY
- The Oxford dictionary of late Antiquity (2 volumes) (OIiver Nicholson, ed.) HBR 930 O
- Dickey, Eleanor - Learning Latin the ancient way: Latin textbooks from the ancient world 478 D
- Rogerson, Barnaby - In search of ancient North Africa: a history in six lives 939.7 R
The Library now offers access to the complete online Loeb Classical Library.
ART
- Medusa's menagerie: Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the scholars (Gero Seelig, ed.) 759.9 S
- Nochlin, Linda - Misère: the visual representation of misery in the 19th century 704.92 N
- Pollock, Griselda - Charlotte Salomon and the theatre of memory 759.3 S
- Stevenson, Jane - Baroque between the wars: alternative style in the arts, 1918-1939 709.04 S
- Tsuda, Noritake - A history of Japanese art: from prehistory to the Taisho period: a comprehensive guide to the temples, museums and art treasures of Japan 709.52 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Bosworth, Patricia - Dreamer with a thousand thrills: Tom Palumbo, the rediscovered photographs 779 P OVERSIZE
- Brassaï, - Brassaï (major 2018 exhibition) 779 B
- Dyer, Geoff - The street philosophy of Garry Winogrand 779 W
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Childs, Craig- Atlas of a lost world: travels in ice age America 970.1 C
- Hazan, Éric - A walk through Paris 914.436 H
- Larson, Edward J. - To the edges of the Earth: 1909, the race for the three poles, and the climax of the age of exploration 910.9 L
NEW YORK
- New architecture New York (Pavel Bendov, ed.) 720.973 N
- Horn, Stacy - Damnation Island: poor, sick, mad & criminal in 19th-century New York 362.2 H
- Mottel, Syeus - Charas: the improbable dome builders (early 1970s: Buckminster Fuller & Lower East street street gangs) 720.973 M
PHILOSOPHY
- Arendt, Hannah - Thinking without a banister: essays in understanding, 1953-1975 191 A
- Van Zuylen, Marina - The plenitude of distraction 153 V
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
- Larman, Alexander - Byron's women 920 L3248 B
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Wrestling with the devil: a prison memoir 92 N5763 N
- Schwartz, Mimi - When history is personal 92 S39988 S
- Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca - Red hot mama: the life of Sophie Tucker 92 T894 S
- Targoff, Ramie - Renaissance woman: the life of Vittoria Colonna 92 C719 T
- Tate, Sheila - Lady in red: an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan 92 R2877 T
HISTORY
- Visitors to Versailles: from Louis XIV to the French Revolution (The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibiton catalog) 944.03 V OVERSIZE
- Herman, Arthur - 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder 940.3 H
- Rees, John - The Leveller Revolution: radical political organisation in England, 1640-1650 942.06 R
- Shore, Marci - The Ukrainian night: an intimate history of revolution 947.7 S
- Symonds, Craig L. - World War II at sea: a global history 940.545 S
- Williams, Thomas J. T. - Viking Britain: an exploration 942.01 W
- Wright, Lawrence - God save Texas: a journey into the soul of the Lone Star State 917.64 W
ESPIONAGE & INTELLIGENCE
- Bingham, Charlotte - MI5 and me: a coronet among the spooks 92 B6134 B
- Khalili, Laleh - Time in the shadows: confinement in counterinsurgencies 355 K
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Blinder, Alan S. - Advice and dissent: why America suffers when economics and politics collide 330.973 B
- Califano, Joseph A. - Our damaged democracy: we the people must act 320.9 C
- Vidal, Gore - I told you so: Gore Vidal talks politics: interviews with Jon Wiener 828 V