New Books - March 2020
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Boitani, Piero. - A new sublime: ten timeless lessons on the classics
- Chayka, Kyle - The longing for less: living with minimalism
- Denworth, Lydia - Friendship: the evolution, biology, and extraordinary power of life's fundamental bond
- Enright, Anne - No authority: writings from the laureate of fiction
- Fehrman, Craig - Author in chief: the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Gaffney, Ginger - Half broke: a memoir
- Ghattas, Kim - Black wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion and collective memory in the Middle East
- Gornick, Vivian - Unfinished business: notes of a chronic re-reader (ebook available)
- Greene, B. - Until the end of time: mind, matter, and our search for meaning in an evolving universe
- Halliday, Stephen - An underground guide to sewers, or, down, through & out in Paris, London, New York, &c.
- Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo - Children of the land
- Kaplan, Fred M - The bomb: presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war
- Keaton, Diane - Brother & sister
- Klein, Ezra - Why we're polarized
- Knowlton, Christopher - Bubble in the sun: the Florida boom of the 1920s and how it brought on the Great Depression
- Knox, Clement - Seduction: a history from the Enlightenment to the present
- Krugman, Paul R. - Arguing with zombies: economics, politics, and the fight for a better future
- Marozzi, Justin - Islamic empires: the cities that shaped civilization: from Mecca to Dubai
- McKay, Sinclair - The fire and the darkness: the bombing of Dresden, 1945
- Miller, Adrienne - In the land of men: a memoir
- Mitchell, Jerry - Race against time: a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era
- Nelson, Megan Kate - The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West
- Parkin, Simon - A game of birds and wolves: the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II
- Rifkind, Donna - The sun and her stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood
- Rosenberg, Justus - The art of resistance: my four years in the French underground: a memoir
- Rucker, Philip - A very stable genius: Donald J. Trump's testing of America (ebook available)
- Sanmao - Stories of the Sahara
- Self, Will - Will
- Shapland, Jenn - My autobiography of Carson McCullers
- Sharlet, Jeff - This brilliant darkness: a book of strangers
- Thomas, Dana - Fashionopolis: the price of fast fashion—and the future of clothes
- Tolstoy, Nikolai - Patrick O'Brian: a very private life
- Wade, Francesca - Square haunting: five women, freedom and London between the wars
- Wasson, Sam - The big goodbye: Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood (ebook available)
FICTION
- Adiga, Aravind - Amnesty: a novel
- Anappara, Deepa - Djinn patrol on the purple line: a novel (ebook available)
- Andrews, Jessica - Saltwater
- Beams, Clare - The illness lesson: a novel
- Chute, Carolyn - The recipe for revolution: a novel
- Cook, Elizabeth - Lux
- Curtis, Rye - Kingdomtide
- Devi, Ananda - The living days (translated from the French)
- Elon, Emunah - House on endless waters: a novel
- Gregor, James - Going Dutch: a novel
- Haratischwili, Nino - The eighth life (for Brilka) (translated from the German)
- Hargrave, Kiran Millwood - The mercies: a novel
- Harrow, Alix E - The ten thousand doors of January
- Hertmans, Stefan - The convert (translated from the German)
- Jen, Gish - The resisters: a novel
- Kehlmann, Daniel - Tyll: a novel
- Markovits, Benjamin - Christmas in Austin
- McCann, Colum - Apeirogon: a novel (ebook available)
- Meek, James - To Calais, in ordinary time (ebook available)
- Napolitano, Ann - Dear Edward: a novel (ebook available)
- NDiaye, Marie - The cheffe: a cook's novel (translated from the French)
- Nemens, Emily - The cactus league
- Offill, Jenny - Weather: a novel (ebook available)
- Palmer, Dexter Clarence - Mary Toft; or, the rabbit queen
- Phillips, Arthur - The king at the edge of the world: a novel
- Rothschild, Hannah - House of Trelawney
- Taylor, Brandon - Real life
- Vijay, Madhuri - The far field: a novel
- Vollmann, William T - The lucky star
- Wilkins, Joe - Fall back down when I die: a novel
- Williams, Beatriz - All the ways we said goodbye: a novel of the Ritz Paris
- Yoon, Paul - Run me to earth: a novel
- Yu, Charles - Interior Chinatown
- Zapata, Michael - The lost book of Adana Moreau: a novel
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section of the list.
MYSTERIES
- Bannalec, Jean-Luc - The killing tide
- Bannister, Jo - Silent footsteps*
- Bollen, Christopher - A beautiful crime: a novel
- Bowen, Rhys - Above the bay of angels: a novel
- Brennan, Allison - The third to die
- Dahl, Kjell Ola - The courier (translated from the Norwegian)
- Dolan, Harry - The good killer: a novel
- Dugoni, Robert - A cold trail
- Ellis, Bella - The vanished bride
- Finch, Charles - The last passenger
- Gardner, Lisa - When you see me: a novel
- Goldberg, Lee - Lost hills
- Greaney, Mark - One minute out
- Hambly, Barbara - Lady of perdition
- Hammer, Chris - Silver *
- Hannah, Sophie - Perfect little children *
- Herron, Mick - The catch *
- Ide, Joe - Hi five: an IQ novel
- Jenkins, Grant Matthew - Ivory tower
- Kellerman, Jonathan - The museum of desire
- Leon, Donna - Trace elements
- Longworth, M. L> - A noël killing
- Moore, Liz - Long bright river
- Mosley, Walter - Trouble is what I do
- Preston, Douglas J - Crooked river
- Robb, J. D. - Golden in death
- Robinson, Peter - Many rivers to cross: a DCI Banks novel *
- Sadowsky, Nina - The empty bed
- Taylor, Brad - Hunter killer
- Todd, Charles - A divided loyalty: an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery
- Vidich, Paul - The coldest warrior: a novel
- * Indicates a British mystery
STORY COLLECTIONS
- Tuck, Lily - Heathcliff redux: a novella and stories
- Yuknavitch, Lidia - Verge: stories
POETRY
- Mathews, Harry - Collected poems: 1946-2016
- Moten, Fred - All that beauty
- See more recent poetry arrivals in the stacks section of the list.
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Brum, Eliane - The collector of leftover souls: field notes on Brazil's everyday insurrections
- Clayton, John - Natural rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the creation of America's public lands
- Curtis, Cathy - Alive still: Nell Blaine, American painter
- Frey, Julia Bloch - Venus betrayed: the private world of Édouard Vuillard
- Gillies, Alexandra - Crude intentions: how oil corruption contaminates the world
- Glasfurd-Brown, Guinevere - The year without summer
- Hayoun, Massoud - When we were Arabs: a Jewish family's forgotten history
- Hicks, Michael - Richard III: the self-made king
- Khalidi, Rashid - The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017
- McHale, Shawn Frederick - Print and power: Confucianism, communism, and Buddhism in the making of modern Vietnam
- Nguyen, Trian - How to make the universe right: the art of the shaman from Vietnam and southern China
- Oberhaus, Daniel - Extraterrestrial languages
- Orenstein, Peggy - Boys & sex: young men on hookups, love, porn, consent, and navigating the new masculinity
- P. Carl - Becoming a man: the story of a transition
- Rondinone, Troy - Nightmare factories: the asylum in the American imagination
- Salmond, Anne - Tears of Rangi: experiments across worlds
- Scigliano, Eric - The big thaw: ancient carbon, modern science, and a race to save the world
- Tai, Michael - China and her neighbours: Asian diplomacy from ancient history to the present
- Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N - Vigil: Hong Kong on the brink
- Zirin, James D - Plaintiff in chief: a portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 lawsuits
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- The Ferrante letters: an experiment in collective criticism (Sarah Chihayo, et al.) 853 F
- Beer, Gillian - George Eliot and the woman question 823 E
- Brown, Sterling A. - A son's return: selected essays of Sterling A. Brown 824 B
- Duncan, Robert - Collected essays and other prose 820.4 D
- Kent, Paul - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1st of a 3-volume Wodehouse biography!) 827.09 W
- Ortberg, Daniel Mallory - Something that may shock and discredit you 824 O
FICTION
- American science fiction: four classic novels, 1968-1969 & four classic novels, 1968-1969 F A
- Hamilton, Patrick - Monday morning (Hamilton's first, published 1925) F H
- Keane, Molly - Conversation piece; Loving without tears; The knight of cheerful countenance F K
- Ragnar Jónasson - Whiteout (Icelandic noir) F R
- Redgrove, Peter - The beekeepers: a novel F R
- Vila-Matas, Enrique - Because she never asked (translated from the Spanish) F V
POETRY
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - West-eastern divan (newly translated and annotated by Eric Ormsby) 831 G
- Handke, Peter - Walk about the villages: a dramatic poem 832 H
- Layton, Irving - The darkening fire: selected poems 1945-1968 821 L
- Murphy, Peter T - The long public life of a short private poem: reading and remembering Thomas Wyatt 821.09 W
- Roberts, Michael - Michael Roberts: selected poems and prose 821 R
LANGUAGE
- Baron, Dennis E - What's your pronoun?: beyond he & she 425 B
- Cassedy, Tim - Figures of speech: six histories of language & identity in the age of revolutions 420.9 C
PHILOSOPHY
- The naturalistic fallacy (Neil Sinclair, ed.; Cambridge Classic philosophical arguments) 170 N
- Marino, Gordon Daniel - The existentialist's survival guide: how to live authentically in an inauthentic age 111 M
- McIntyre, Lee C - Post-truth 177 M
- West, Henry R. - An introduction to Mill's utilitarian ethics 171 W
ART
- Francis Bacon: books and painting (Didier Ottinger, ed.) 759.2 B
- In a cloud, in a wall, in a chair: six modernists in Mexico at midcentury (Zoë Ryan, ed.) 709.72 I
- Behrendt, Kurt A. - How to read Buddhist art 704.948 B
- Farrington, Lisa E - Creating their own image: the history of African-American women artists 709.73 F
- Steinberg, Leo - Michelangelo's painting: selected essays 759.5 S
- Strauss-Schulson, Caren - Scrawl: an A -Z of famous doodles: sketches, jottings, and notes from the greatest minds in history 741 S
ARCHITECTURE
- Buras, Nir Haim - The art of classic planning: building beautiful and enduring communities 724 B
- Curl, James Stevens - Making dystopia: the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism 724 C
- DeWitt, Lloyd - Thomas Jefferson, architect : Palladian models, democratic principles, and the conflict of ideals 720.92 J
PERFORMING ARTS
- Melville, Joy - Diaghilev and friends 92 D5363 M
- Růžičková, Zuzana - One hundred miracles: a memoir of music and survival 92 R987 R
- Slide, Anthony - Silent players: a biographical and autobiographical study of 100 silent film actors and actresses 791.4 S
- Taylor, Derek - As time goes by 784.6 T
PHOTOGRAPHY
- The shape of things: photographs from Robert B. Menschel (MoMA catalog) 779 S
- Cole, Teju - Human archipelago 779 C
- Freund, Gisèle - Three days with Joyce 779 F
- Meadows, Daniel - Now and then: England 1970-2015 779 M
ANTIQUITY
- Cunliffe, Barry W. - The Scythians: nomad warriors of the steppe 939 C
- Potter, D. S. - The origin of empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian 937 P
- Stewart, Susan - The ruins lesson: meaning and material in Western culture 809 S
- The Loeb Classical Library Digital Edition is available to members.
HISTORY
- Barth, Rüdiger - The last winter of the Weimar Republic: the rise of the Third Reich 943.085 B
- Beattie, Andrew - The Scottish Highlands: a cultural history 941 B
- Bordewich, Fergus M. - Congress at war: how Republican reformers fought the Civil War, defied Lincoln, ended slavery, and remade America 973.71 B
- Brown, Vincent - Tacky's revolt: the story of an Atlantic slave war 306.3 B
- Cotterell, Arthur - Bali: a cultural history 959.8 C
- Gopal, Priyamvada - Insurgent empire: anticolonial resistance and British dissent 325.3 G
- Keith, LeeAnna - When it was grand: the radical Republican history of the Civil War 973.71 K
- Preston, Diana - Eight days at Yalta: how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world 940.5314 P
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Five hundred years of women's work: the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection (Grolier Club, Naomi L. Nelson, et al., eds.) 305.4 F
- Berry, Daina Ramey - A Black women's history of the United States 305.4 B
- Kaplan, Janice - The genius of women: from overlooked to changing the world 305.4 K
- Lorde, Audre - Audre Lorde: dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews: 1984-1992 808.1 L
- Springer, Kimberly - Living for the revolution: Black feminist organizations, 1968-1980 305.4 S
- Check our blog for a lengthy list of recent arrivals on Women's History.
RELIGION
- The Cambridge companion to American Islam (Juliane Hammer, Omid Safi, eds.) 297 C
- Gordis, Daniel - We stand divided: the rift between American Jews and Israel 305.86 G
- Rogers, Melissa - Faith in American public life 322.1 R
- Rowe, David L - God's strange work: William Miller and the end of the world 286 R
ANTHROPOLOGY
- Ellingson, Terry Jay - The myth of the noble savage 301 E
- Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy - Franz Boas : the emergence of the anthropologist 92 B662 Z
MILITARY HISTORY
- Ash, Stephen V. - Rebel Richmond : life and death in the Confederate capital 975.5 A
- Hastings, Max - Operation Chastise: the RAF's most brilliant attack of World War II 940.544 H
- McDonell, Nick - The bodies in person : an account of civilian casualties in American wars 956.704 M
CARTOGRAPHY
- Infinite cities: a trilogy of atlases: San Francisco, New Orleans, New York (Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro) 912 I
- Hornsby, Stephen J - Picturing America: the golden age of pictorial maps 912 H
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Bacevich, Andrew J. - The age of illusions: how America squandered its Cold War victory 327.73 B
- Brazinsky, Gregg - Winning the Third World: Sino-American rivalry during the Cold War 327.72 B
- Ferriter, Diarmaid - The border: the legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics 941.5 F
- Koh, Harold Hongju - The Trump administration and international law 973.933 K
- Miscamble, Wilson D. - George F. Kennan and the making of American foreign policy, 1947-1950 327.73 M
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Clark, J. C. D. - Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and revolution 320.1 C
- Johnson, Kimberley S. - Reforming Jim Crow: Southern politics and state in the age before Brown 323.1 J
- Urofsky, Melvin I. - The affirmative action puzzle: a living history from Reconstruction to today 323.1 U
SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY
- Blum, Andrew - The weather machine: a journey inside the forecast 551.6 B
- Cocker, Mark - A Claxton diary: further field notes from a small planet 574 C
- Taylor, Marianne - Bats: an illustrated guide to all species 599 T
- Vince, Gaia - Transcendence: how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time 575 V
BIOGRAPHY
- Bakewell, Sarah - The smart: the story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the unfortunate Perreau brothers 920 B1685 S
- Marwell, David George - Mengele: unmasking the "Angel of Death" 92 M5444 M
- Orr, Clarissa Campbell - Mrs Delany: a life 92 D3379 O
- Penslar, Derek Jonathan - Theodor Herzl: the charismatic leader 92 H582 P
- Shirley, Craig - Mary Ball Washington: the untold story of George Washington's mother 92 W3187 S