New Books January 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Als, Hilton - Joan Didion: what she means
- Brinkley, Douglas - Silent spring revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the great environmental awakening
- Cecchi-Azzolina, Michael - Your table is ready: tales of a New York City maître d'
- Clements, Paul - Jan Morris: life from both sides: a biography (ebook available)
- Cowie, Jefferson - Freedom's dominion: a saga of white resistance to federal power
- Davis, Kenneth C. - Great short books: a year of reading--briefly (ebook available)
- Delaney, Rob - A heart that works
- Gage, Beverly - G-man: J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century (ebook available)
- Gay, Ross - Inciting joy: essays
- Greenidge, Kerri K. - The Grimkes: the legacy of slavery in an American family (ebook available)
- Gristwood, Sarah - The Tudors in love: passion and politics in the age of England's most famous dynasty
- Halliday, Ayun - Creative, not famous: the small potato manifesto
- Inboden, William - The peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the world on the brink
- Kershaw, Ian - Personality and power: builders and destroyers of modern Europe
- Kimmelman, Michael - The intimate city: walking New York (ebook available)
- Le Carré, John - A private spy: the letters of John le Carré (ebook available)
- Magnuson, William J. - For profit: a history of corporations
- Maus now: selected writing (Hilary Chute, ed.)
- Max, D. T. - Finale: late interviews with Stephen Sondheim (ebook available)
- Peacock, Molly - A friend sails in on a poem: essays on friendship, freedom and poetic form
- Peattie, Antony - The private life of Lord Byron
- Pim, Keiron - Endless flight: the life of Joseph Roth (ebook available)
- Potter, Simon James - This is the BBC: entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain? 1922-2022
- Prose, Francine - Cleopatra: her history, her myth
- Rogoff, Natasha Lance - Muppets in Moscow: the unexpected crazy true story of making Sesame Street in Russia
- Sax, David - The future is analog: how to create a more human world
- Strachey, Nino - Young Bloomsbury: the generation that redefined love, freedom, and self-expression in 1920s England (ebook available)
- Vincent, Jame - Beyond measure: the hidden history of measurement from cubits to quantum constants
FICTION
- Anonymous sex (Hillary Jordon & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, eds.)
- Auður A. Ólafsdóttir - Animal life (translated from the Icelandic)
- Barskova, Polina - Living pictures (translated from the Russian)
- Bonnefoy, Miguel - Heritage (translated from the French)
- Boone, Joseph Allen - Furnace creek: a novel
- Boyne, John - All the broken places
- Burger, Hermann - Tractatus logico-suicidalis: on killing oneself (translated from the German)
- Campbell, Jane - Cat brushing: and other stories
- Chang, K-Ming - Gods of want: stories
- Clark, Clare - Trespass
- Coe, Jonathan - Bournville: a novel in seven occasions
- Duras, Marguerite - The easy life (translated from the French) (ebook available)
- Fredericks, Mariah - The Lindbergh nanny: a novel
- Han, Joseph - Nuclear family: a novel
- Hoover, Colleen - It starts with us: a novel
- Joella, Ethan - A quiet life: a novel (ebook available)
- Khan, Uzma Aslam - The miraculous true history of Nomi Ali
- Lernet-Holenia, Alexander - Baron bagge (translated from the German; foreword by Patti Smith)
- Lipsyte, Sam - No one left to come looking for you: a novel
- Mandanīʹpūr, Shahriyār - Seasons of purgatory (translated from the Persian)
- Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe - Scatterlings: a novel
- Mayr, Suzette - The sleeping car porter
- McCarthy, Cormac - Stella Maris (ebook available)
- Pariat, Janice - Everything the light touches: a novel
- The Penguin book of French short stories (translated from the French; 2 volumes; Patrick McGuinness, ed.)
- Poston, Ashley - The dead romantics
- Quinn, Anthony - Molly & the captain
- Rutledge, Lynda - West with giraffes: a novel
- Soysal, Sevgi - Dawn
- Stories of Southern Italy (translated from the Italian; Ella Carr, ed.)
- Wagner, Bruce - Roar: American master, the oral biography of Roger Orr: a novel
- Yun, Ko-ŭn - The disaster tourist (translated from the Korean)
*See more fiction below "In The Stacks."
MYSTERIES & CRIME NOVELS
- Beaton, M. C. - Devil's delight: an Agatha raisin mystery* (ebook available)
- Bolton, Sharon - The buried*
- Brett, Simon - Waste of a life *
- Cosby, S. A. - My darkest prayer: a novel
- Edwards, Emily J - Viviana Valentine gets her man: a girl Friday mystery
- Estleman, Loren D. - Paperback Jack
- Fowler, Christopher - Bryant & May: peculiar London*
- Garrett, Kellye - Like a sister
- Golden age locked room mysteries (Otto Penzler, ed.)
- Goodrich, Joseph - The Paris manuscript: a novel
- Griffiths, Elly - Bleeding Heart Yard* (ebook available)
- Higashino, Keigo - A death in Tokyo: a mystery (ebook available)
- James, Peter - Picture you dead*
- Judd, Alan - Queen & country*
- Kapelke-Dale, Rachel - The ingenue: a novel
- Khan, Vaseem - The lost man of Bombay
- Lovesey, Peter - Showstopper*
- Maitland, Barry - The Russian wife
- Mo, Johanna - The night singer
- Morris, Wanda M. - Anywhere you run: a novel
- Morrissey, Hannah - The widowmaker: a novel
- Penny, Louise - A world of curiosities (ebook available)
- Rosenfelt, David - Citizen K-9
- Rosenfelt, David - Santa's little yelpers
- Smiley, Jane - A dangerous business (ebook available)
- Spotswood, Stephen - Secrets typed in blood: a Pentecost and Parker mystery (ebook available)
- Steadman, Catherine - The family game: a novel
- Yi, Chŏng-myŏn - Broken summer: a novel (translated from the Korean)
- Young, Kat - Crime for the books
*Indicates a UK mystery
POETRY
- Choi, Franny - The world keeps ending, and the world goes on
- Duhig, Ian - New and selected poems
- Gerber, Dan - Particles: new and selected poems
- Keene, John - Punks: new & selected poems
- Levin, Dana - Now do you know where you are
- Limón, Ada - The hurting kind: poems
- Mlinko, Ange - Distant mandate
- Narayanan, Vive - After
- Popa, Maya C. - Wound is the origin of wonder: poems
- Walser, Robert - The poems
*See more poetry below, "In the Stacks."
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Badkhen, Anna - Bright unbearable reality: essays (New York Review Books) 824 B
- Beer, Anna R. - Eve bites back: an alternative history of English literature 820.9 B
- Berlin, Lucia - Love, Loosha: the letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie 920 B516 L
- Best, Wallace D - Langston's salvation: American religion and the bard of Harlem 820.9 H
- Carey, John - Sunday best: 80 great books from a lifetime of reviews 028.1 C
- Crase, Douglas - On Autumn Lake: the collected essays 821.09 C
- Fenwick, E. - Secresy [sic], or, The ruin on the rock (18th century pioneering Feminist novel) 823 F
- James, Winston - Claude McKay: the making of a Black Bolshevik 92 M153 J
- Looser, Devoney - Sister novelists: the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës 920 P8441 L
- McBride, Jason - Eat your mind: the radical life and work of Kathy Acker 92 A1822 M
- McCourt, John - Consuming Joyce: 100 years of Ulysses in Ireland 823 J
- Pathetic literature: an anthology (Eileen Myles, ed.) 808.8 P
- Snyder, Michael - James Purdy: life of a contrarian writer 92 P986 S
- Thurman, Judith - A left-handed woman: essays 824 T
- The translations of Seamus Heaney (edited with commentary by Marco Sonzogni) 808.81 T
- Wilde, Oscar - The critical writings of Oscar Wilde: an annotated selection 824 W
FICTION
- Abd al-Nabī, Muḥammad - In the spider's room (2019 winner Arabic Literature Prize; set in Egypt; translated from the Arabic) F A
- Brinig, Myron - The flutter of an eyelid (1933; satire of Southern California's bohemian community in the 1920s; illustrated by Lynd Ward) F B
- Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Gravel heart (2017 novel by winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021) F G
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo - The river between (1965 novel; Kenya; Penguin Classics) F N
- Odle, E. V. - The clockwork man (1920s pioneering sci-fi; republished by MIT) F O
- Olbracht, Ivan - Nikola the outlaw (acclaimed 1933 Czech novel) F O
- Scanlan, Kathryn - The dominant animal: stories (well-received 2020 collection) F S
MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE
- Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen - The complete and original Norwegian folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe 398 A
- Sax, Boria - Imaginary animals: the monstrous, the wondrous and the human 398 S
POETRY
- Alonso, Jordi - Honeyvoiced: poems inspired by Sappho's fragments 821 A
- Muske-Dukes, Carol - Blue rose 821 M
- Olds, Sharon - Odes 821 O
- Vivien, Renée - The muse of the violets: poems 841.08 V
BOOKS & READING
- Christian, Shawn Anthony - The Harlem Renaissance: and the idea of a New Negro reader 028 C
- De Hamel, Christopher - The posthumous papers of the manuscripts club 757.1 D
- Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine - Wild intelligence: poets' libraries and the politics of knowledge in postwar America 027 K
- What writers read: 35 writers on their favourite book (Pandora Sykes, ed.) 028 W
ART
- Cleland, Elizabeth A. H. - The Tudors: art and majesty in Renaissance England 709.42 C
- Dawson, David - Love Lucian: the letters of Lucian Freud, 1939 -1954 759.2 F
- Feaver, William - Frank Auerbach 759.2 A
- Fisher, Paul - The grand affair: John Singer Sargent in his world 92 S2495 F
- Lanahan, Eleanor Anne - The paper dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald 745.5 L
- Rudd, Natalie - The self-portrait 704.942 R
- Slominski, Lisa - Nonconformers: a new history of self-taught artists 709.04 S
- Weiss, Daniel H - Why the museum matters 708 W
- Yau, John - Joe Brainard: the art of the personal 709.2 B
- One hundred objects in the Frick Art Reference Library (Stephen J. Bury, ed.) 026 O
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Bravo, Monica - Greater American camera: making modernism in Mexico 770 B
- Epstein, Mitch - In India 779 E
- Rosenkrantz, Linda - Peter Hujar's day 828 H
- Shames, Stephen - Comrade sisters: women of the Black Panther party 779 S
- Smith, Patti - A book of days 779 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Chopra, Joyce - Lady director: adventures in Hollywood, television and beyond 92 C5499 C
- Enss, Chris - Straight lady: the life and times of Margaret Dumont, "the fifth Marx Brother" 92 D8898 E
- Gaddy, K. R. - Well of souls: uncovering the banjo's hidden history 787.6 G
- Koloda, Richard - Holy ghost: the life & death of free jazz pioneer Albert Ayler 780.921 A
- Levy, Aidan - Saxophone colossus: the life and music of Sonny Rollins 92 R7548 L
- Reich, Denise - Front of house: observations from a decade on the aisle 92 R3474 R
PHILOSOPHY
- Angle, Stephen C. - Growing moral: a Confucian guide to life 181 A
- Beatty, Laura - Looking for Theophrastus: travels in search of a lost philosopher 185.2 B
- Ngai, Sianne - Theory of the gimmick: aesthetic judgment and capitalist form 111 N
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- De Courcy, Anne - Five love affairs and a friendship: the Paris life of Nancy Cunard, icon of the Jazz Age 92 C9726 D
- De Lisle, Leanda - Henrietta Maria: the warrior queen who divided a nation 92 H5188 D
- Gendel, Milton - Just passing through: a seven-decade Roman holiday: the diaries and photographs of Milton Gendel 92 G3252 G
- Griswold, Mac K. - I'll build a stairway to paradise: a life of Bunny Mellon 92 M52782 G
- Hempel, Jessi - The family outing: a memoir 92 H48975 H
- Nobles, Gregory H. - The education of Betsey Stockton: an odyssey of slavery and freedom 92 S8661 N
- Roberts, Robert - A ragged schooling: growing up in the classic slum (WWI-era, Northern England) 92 R6467 R
- Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara - Maria Theresa: the Habsburg empress in her time 92 M3334 S
HISTORY
- Akhtar, Ali Humayun - 1368: China and the making of the modern world 951 A
- Ball, Warwick - The Eurasian steppe: people, movement, ideas 958 B
- Faragher, John Mack - California: an American history 979.4 F
- Ginzburg, Carlo - The soul of brutes 306 G
- Guyatt, Nicholas - The hated cage: an American tragedy in Britain's most terrifying prison (War of 1812) 973.52 G
- Hay, Daisy - Dinner with Joseph Johnson: books and friendship in a revolutionary age 942.07 H
- Jong, L. d - The Netherlands and Nazi Germany 940.5318 J
- Pagden, Anthony - The pursuit of Europe: a history 940 P
- Soderlund, Jean R. - Lenape country: Delaware Valley society before William Penn 974.8 S
- Wooding, Lucy E. C. - Tudor England: a history 942.05 W
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Epictetus - The complete works: handbook, discourses, and fragments (edited and translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield) 188.7 E
- Osgood, Josiah - Uncommon wrath: how Caesar and Cato's deadly rivalry destroyed the Roman Republic 937.02 O
- Romm, James S. - Demetrius: sacker of cities 92 D3765 R
- Waters, Matthew W. - King of the world: the life of Cyrus the Great 92 C9975 W
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Geismer, Lily - Left behind: the Democrats' failed attempt to solve inequality 324.273 G
- Marchick, David Matthew - The peaceful transfer of power: an oral history of America's presidential transitions 353.03 M
- Miller, Edward H. - A conspiratorial life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the revolution of American conservatism 92 W4413 M
- Rose, Matthew - A world after liberalism: philosophers of the radical right 320.9 R
SOCIOLOGY
- hooks, bell - Salvation: Black people and love 306.7 H
- Schoen, Johanna - Abortion after Roe 363.4 S
- Smil, Vaclav - How the world really works: the science behind how we got here and where we're going 303.4 S
- Vince, Gaia - Nomad century: how climate migration will reshape our world 304.2 V
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Andrews, Kehinde - The new age of empire: how racism and colonialism still rule the world 325.3 A
- Gordon, Michael R. - Degrade and destroy: the inside story of the war against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump 956 G
- Lebovic, Sam - A righteous smokescreen: postwar America and the politics of cultural globalization 327.73 L
RACE IN AMERICA
- Joseph, Peniel E. - The third reconstruction: America's struggle for racial justice in the twenty-first century 323.2 J
- Rogers, Steven - A letter to my white friends and colleagues: what you can do right now to help the Black community 339.2 R
- Yacovone, Donald - Teaching white supremacy: America's democratic ordeal and the forging of our national identity 973 Y
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Crerar, Belinda - Feminine power: the divine to the demonic (British Museum) 291 B
- Griffith, Elisabeth - Formidable: American women and the fight for equality, 1920-2020 305.4 G
- Tax, Meredith - The rising of the women: feminist solidarity and class conflict, 1880-1917 331.4 T
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Cobb, Matthew - As gods: a moral history of the genetic age 660 C
- Ehrlich, Benjamin - The brain in search of itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron 92 R1753 E
- Gigliotti, Carol - The creative lives of animals 591.5 G
- Plokhy, Serhii - Atoms and ashes: a global history of nuclear disasters 621.48 P
- Sumner, Seirian - Endless forms: the secret world of wasps 595.7 S
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Keay, John - Himālaya: exploring the roof of the world 954.96 K
- Letter to a stranger: essays to the ones who haunt us (Colleen Kinder, ed.; foreword by Leslie Jamison) 824.08 L
- Nors, Dorthe - A line in the world: a year on the North Sea coast 914.89 N