New Books - September 2016
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin - Seinfeldia: how a show about nothing changed everything
- Brooks, Rosa - How everything became war and the military became everything: tales from the Pentagon
- Byatt, A. S. - Peacock & vine: on William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
- Cole, Teju - Known and strange things: essays
- Dickerson, John - Whistlestop: my favorite stories from presidential campaign history
- The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race (edited by Jesmyn Ward)
- Goldblatt, David - The Games: a global history of the Olympics
- Grescoe, Taras - Shanghai grand: forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world
- Gross, Michael - Focus: the secret, sexy, sometimes sordid world of fashion photographers
- Janowitz, Tama - Scream: a memoir of glamour and dysfunction
- Johnston, David - The making of Donald Trump
- Kaufman, David - Some enchanted evenings: the glittering life and times of Mary Martin
- Kelly, Jack - Heaven's ditch: God, gold, and murder on the Erie Canal
- Khalaf, Farida - The girl who escaped ISIS: this is my story (translated from the German)
- Klein, Jessi - You'll grow out of it
- McDonell, Terry - The accidental life: an editor's notes on writing and writers
- Miller, James A. - Powerhouse: the untold story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
- Moor, Robert - On trails
- ¡No pasarán!: writings from the Spanish Civil War (edited by Pete Ayrton)
- Rosset, Barney - Rosset: my life in publishing and how I fought censorship
- Singer, Mark - Trump and me
- Smee, Sebastian - The art of rivalry: four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
- Spiegelman, Nadja - I'm supposed to protect you from all this: a memoir
- Strausbaugh, John - City of sedition: the history of New York during the Civil War
- Toobin, Jeffrey - American heiress: the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst (ebook available)
- Van der Leun, Justine - We are not such things: the murder of a young American, a South African township, and the search for truth and reconciliation
- Vance, J. D - Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Whitaker, Amy - Art thinking: how to carve out creative space in a world of schedules, budgets, and bosses
FICTION
- Abbott, Megan E. - You will know me: a novel
- Agee, Jonis - The bones of paradise
- Barker, Nicola - The cauliflower
- Butler, Robert Olen - Perfume river
- Dawson, Jill - The crime writer
- Engel, Patricia - The veins of the ocean
- Gregory, Philippa - Three sisters, three queens
- Hemmings, Kaui Hart - How to party with an infant
- Hertmans, Stefan - War and turpentine (translated from the Dutch)
- Hood, Ann - The book that matters most
- Ivey, Eowyn - To the bright edge of the world
- Kluge, Alexander (w/pictures by Gerhard Richter) - Dispatches from moments of calm: 89 stories, 64 pictures (translated from the German)
- London, Joan - The golden age
- Mbue, Imbolo - Behold the dreamers
- McInerney, Jay - Bright, precious days
- McInerney, Lisa - The glorious heresies
- Miéville, China - The last days of new Paris: a novella
- Miller, Derek B. - The girl in green
- Moore, Alan - Jerusalem
- Moriarty, Liane - Truly madly guilty
- Parkhurst, Carolyn - Harmony
- Reyn, Irina - The imperial wife
- Sem-Sandberg, Steve - The chosen ones (translated from the Swedish)
- Sjón - Moonstone: the boy who never was (translated from the Icelandic)
- Solomon, Anna - Leaving Lucy Pear
- Towles, Amor - A gentleman in Moscow
- Vapnyar, Lara - Still here: a novel
- Watson, Brad - Miss Jane
- Whitehead, Colson - The underground railroad (ebook available)
- Wolfe, Inger Ash - The night bell
- Wood, Charlotte - The natural way of things
- Woodson, Jacqueline - Another Brooklyn
- Żukrowski, Wojciech - Stone tablets (translated from the Polish)
MYSTERIES
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc- Murder on Brittany shores (translated from the German)
- Berry, Flynn - Under the harrow
- Booth, Stephen - Secrets of death
- Bowen, Rhys - Crowned and dangerous
- Brown, Sandra - Sting
- Carlisle, Anna - Dark road home: a Gin Sullivan mystery
- Carofiglio, Gianrico - A fine line (translated from the Italian)
- Carr, Matthew - The devils of Cardona*
- Connolly, John - A time of torment: a Charlie Parker thriller
- Cotterill, Colin - I shot the Buddha
- Coulter, Catherine - Insidious
- Dolan, Eva - Tell no tales *
- Evanovich, Janet - Curious minds: a Knight and Moon novel
- Feiffer, Jules - Cousin Joseph: a graphic novel
- French, Nicci - Saturday requiem*
- Gentry, Amy - Good as gone
- George, C. B. - The death of Rex Nhongo*
- Hammer, Lotte - The vanished (translated from the Danish)
- Harrison, Cora - A shocking assassination
- Holt, Anne - Dead joker: a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel (translated from the Norwegian)
- Hunt, James Patrick - Once upon a time in Camelot
- Jewell, Lisa - The girls in the garden*
- Kelly, Stephen - The wages of desire
- Koryta, Michael - Rise the dark
- Loehfelm, Bill - Let the devil out: a Maureen Coughlin novel
- Lustbader, Eric - Any minute now
- Martin, Andrew - The yellow diamond
- Penny, Louise - A great reckoning
- Pryor, Mark - The Paris librarian
- Putnam, Jonathan F. - These honored dead: a Lincoln and Speed mystery
- Rimington, Stella - Breaking cover *
- Ripley, Mike - Mr Campion's fault*
- Robinson, Peter - When the music's over: an Inspector Banks novel *
- Robinson, Todd - Rough trade: a Boo & Junior gig
- Scottoline, Lisa - Damaged: a Rosato & DiNunzio novel
- Sund, Erik Axl - The crow girl (translated from the Swedish)
- Thor, Brad - Foreign agent: a thriller
- Tracy, P. J. - The sixth idea / P.J. Tracy
- Weaver, Tim - Fall from grace*
- Wilson, Elizabeth - She died young
- Woods, Stuart - Smooth operator: a Teddy Fay novel featuring Stone Barrington (w/ Parnell Hall)
- Wright, Lili - Dancing with the tiger
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Sneed, Christine - The virginity of famous men
POETRY
- Fondane, Benjamin - Cinepoems and others (New York Review Books; translated from the French)
- Pizarnik, Alejandra- Extracting the stone of madness: poems 1962-1972 (translated from the Spanish)
- Prikryl, Jana - The after party
- Rich, Adrienne - Collected poems, 1950-2012
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Global muckraking: 100 years of investigative journalism from around the world (Anya Schiffrin, ed.)
- Zeisler, Andi - We were feminists once: from Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the buying and selling of a political movement
See fall 2016 forthcoming book hightlights here.
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Blanchfield, Brian - Proxies: essays near knowing: a reckoning 824 B
- Butler, Marilyn - Romantics, rebels, and reactionaries: English literature and its background, 1760-1830 820.9 B
- Gale, Robert L. - Plots and characters in the fiction and narrative poetry of Herman Melville 823 M
- James, Clive - Gate of lilacs: a verse commentary on Proust 843 J
- Perloff, Marjorie - Edge of irony: modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire 830.9 P
- Petrarca, Francesco - My secret book (translated from the Italian) 879.8 P
- Wroe, Ann - Six facets of light 809.9 W
FICTION
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke - Rashomon and seventeen other stories (early 20th century; translated from the Japanese) F A
- Bataille, Georges - Blue of noon (1935; translated from the French) F B
- Dutourd, Jean - Pluche, or, The love of art (1970; translated from the French) F D
- Inoue, Yasushi - Bullfight (1949; translated from the Japanese; Pushkin Press) F I
- Keene, John - Counternarratives F K
- Murray, Rosalind - The happy tree (1926; Persephone reissue) F M
- Teffi, N. A - Tolstoy, Rasputin, others, and me: the best of Teffi (1920s-30s; translated from the Russian; New York Review Books) F T
- Zola, Emile - The conquest of Plassans (2014 translation by Helen Constantine) F Z
FICTION ANTHOLOGIES
- Anthology of Korean literature: from early times to the nineteenth century (Peter Lee, ed.) 895 A
- The new diaspora: the changing landscape of American Jewish fiction (Victoria Aarons, ed.) F N
- A thousand forests in one acorn: an anthology of Spanish-language fiction (Valerie Miles, ed.) 863.09 T
POETRY
- Burt, Stephen - Belmont: poems 821 B
- Green, Paul - Paul Green's war songs: a southern poet's history of the Great War, 1917-1920 821 G
- Howe, Susan - That this 821 H
- Joyce, James - Joyce : poems and a play 821 J
- Labé, Louise - Love sonnets & elegies 841 L
JOURNALISM
- Kluger, Richard - Indelible ink: the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press 070.1 K
- Ponce de Leon, Charles L. - That's the way it is: a history of television news in America 070.1 P
ART
- Churchill, Winston - Painting as a pastime 750.1 C
- Empson, William - The face of the Buddha 730 E
- Everywhen: the eternal present in indigenous art from Australia (Stephen Gilchrist, et al., eds.) 709.011 E
- Goswamy, B. N. - The spirit of Indian painting: close encounters with 101 great works, 1100-1900 759.95 G
- Hubert Robert (National Gallery of Art; Margaret Mogan Grassellli, et al.) 759.4 R
- James, Jamie - The glamour of strangeness: artists and the last age of the exotic 701 J
- Onians, John - Neuroarthistory: from Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki 701 O
LANGUAGE
- Berwick, Robert C. - Why only us: language and evolution 401 B
- Green, Jonathon - Slang: a very short introduction 427 G
- Visible language: inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond (Christopher Woods, ed.) 411 V OVERSIZE
PHILOSOPHY
- Adamson, Peter - Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds: a history of philosophy without any gaps 180 A
- Blue, Daniel - The making of Friedrich Nietzsche: the quest for identity, 1844-1869 193 B
- Gottlieb, Anthony - The dream of enlightenment: the rise of modern philosophy 190 G
BIOGRAPHY
- Bone, James - The curse of beauty: the scandalous & tragic life of Audrey Munson, America's first supermodel (1891-1996) 92 M982 B
- Corbett, Rachel - You must change your life: the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin 920 C7898 Y
- Davenport-Hines, R. P. T - Edward VII: the cosmopolitan king 92 E257 D
- Freed, John B. - Frederick Barbarossa: the prince and the myth 92 F849 F
- Keats, Jonathan - You belong to the universe: Buckminster Fuller and the future 92 F9677 K
- O'Sullivan, Emer - The fall of the house of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and his family 920 W6722 O
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich - An essay in autobiography 92 P2911 P
- Vapnek, Lara - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: modern American revolutionary 92 F6481 V
PERFORMING ARTS
- Beaver, Frank Eugene - Dictionary of film terms: the aesthetic companion to film art HBR 791.4 B
- Cage, John - The selected letters of John Cage 780.92 C
- Cassavetes, John - Cassavetes on Cassavetes (Ray Carney, ed.) 791.4 C
- James, Clive - Play all: a bingewatcher's notebook 791.4 J
- Marissen, Michael - Bach & God 780.92 B
- Quignard, Pascal - The hatred of music 780.1 Q
- Selvin, Joel - Altamont: the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the inside story of rock's darkest day 784.6 S
ANTIQUITY
- Fletcher, Joann - The story of Egypt: the civilization that shaped the world 932 F
- Mason, Steve - A history of the Jewish War, A.D. 66-74 933 M
- Scott, Michael - Ancient worlds: an epic history of East & West 930 S
- Thonemann, Peter - The Hellenistic age 938 T
HISTORY
- Broodbank, Cyprian - The making of the Middle Sea: a history of the Mediterranean from the beginning to the emergence of the classical world 939 B
- Man, John - Samurai: the last warrior: a history 952 M
- The Princeton history of modern Ireland (Richard Bourke, ed.) 941.5 P
- Rees, Sian - Lucie Aubrac: the French resistance heroine who outwitted the Gestapo 940.5344 R
- Reséndez, Andrés - The other slavery: the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America 326 R
- Taylor, Alan - American revolutions: a continental history, 1750-1804 973.3 T
- Wood, Peter H. - Strange new land: Africans in colonial America 973.2 W
WAR
- Doran, Amanda-Jane - The Huns have got my gramophone!: advertisements from the Great War 940.342 D
- Manning, Chandra - Troubled refuge: struggling for freedom in the Civil War 973.71 M
- Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh - Somme: into the breach 940.42 S
- Todman, Daniel - Britain's war: into battle, 1937-1941 940.5342 T
- War factory: a report (Mass Observation publication) 940.5315 W
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Elkin, Lauren - Flâneuse: women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London 910 E
- Knight, Gavin - Swordfish and the star: life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast 942.3 K
SCIENCE
- Aldersey-Williams, Hugh - The tide: the science and stories behind the greatest force on earth 553.7 A
- Munz, Tania - The dancing bees: Karl von Frisch and the discovery of the honeybee language 595.799 M
- Otto, Shawn Lawrence - The war on science: who's waging it, why it matters, what we can do about it 304.2 O
- Unity of nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas (Georgia de Havenon, et al., eds.) 508 U
RELIGION
- Arberry, A. J. - Sufism: an account of the mystics of Islam 297 A
- Harmless, William - Desert Christians: an introduction to the literature of early monasticism 271 H
- Hazleton, Lesley - Agnostic: a spirited manifesto 211 H
- Rudin, A. James - Pillar of fire: a biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise 92 W8134 R
RACE IN AMERICA
- Hill, Marc Lamont - Nobody: casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond 305.5 H
- Price, Melanye T. - The race whisperer: Barack Obama and the political uses of race 973.932 P
- Ross, Lawrence C. - Blackballed: the black and white politics of race on America's campuses 378 R
- Smith, Mychal Denzel - Invisible man, got the whole world watching: a young black man's education 325.26 S
SOCIOLOGY
- Isay, David - Callings: the purpose and passion of work 331.7 I
- McDonell, Nick - The civilization of perpetual movement: nomads in the modern world 304.8 M
- Pearson, Helen - The life project: the extraordinary story of 70,000 ordinary lives 312 P
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Liebmann, George W. - The fall of the House of Speyer: the story of a banking dynasty 332.1 L
- Stiglitz, Joseph E. - The euro: how a common currency threatens the future of Europe 332.4 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Benhabib, Seyla - The reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt 320.9 B
- Cohen, Michael A. - American Maelstrom: the 1968 election and politics of division 324 C
- Levin, Yuval - The fractured republic: renewing America's social contract in the age of individualism 306 L
NEW YORK
- Krase, Jerome - Race, class, and gentrification in Brooklyn: a view from the street 307.76 K
- Steier, Richard - Enough blame to go around: the labor pains of New York City's public employee unions 331.88 S
- Weiner, Melissa F. - Power, protest, and the public schools: Jewish and African American struggles in New York City 371.9 W
AUDIO
- Lively, Penelope - Consequences Lobby Audio-CD L
- Macdonald, Ross - The drowning pool Audio-CD M
- Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe - The leopard Audio-CD T
- Wolitzer, Meg - The wife: a novel Lobby Audio-CD W