New Books February 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Auster, Paul - Bloodbath nation
- Ball, Matthe - The metaverse: and how it will revolutionize everything
- Bell, Kirsty - The undercurrents: a story of Berlin (ebook available)
- Brooks, Peter - Seduced by story: the use and abuse of narrative (ebook available)
- Brower, Kate Andersen - Elizabeth Taylor: the grit & glamour of an icon
- Geanacopoulos, Daphne Palmer - The pirate's wife: the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd
- Geter, Hafizah - The Black period: on personhood, race, and origin
- (Prince) Harry - Spare (ebook available)
- The January 6 report: findings from the Select Committee to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol with reporting, analysis and visuals by the New York Times
- Kafka, Franz - The diaries (ebook available) (new translation by Ross Benjamin)
- Kidder, Tracy - Rough sleepers (ebook available)
- Malcolm, Janet - Still pictures: on photography and memory (ebook available)
- Russell, Gareth - Do let's have another drink!: the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Scheeres, Julia - Listen, world!: how the intrepid Elsie Robinson became America's most-read woman
- Tóibín, Colm - A guest at the feast: essays (ebook available)
- Winthrop, Elizabeth - Daughter of spies: wartime secrets, family lies
- Woo, Ilyon - Master slave husband wife: an epic journey from slavery to freedom
FICTION
- Bernhard, Thomas - The rest is slander: five stories (translated from the German)
- Blauner, Peter - Picture in the sand
- Crewe, Tom - The new life: a novel (ebook available)
- Csáth, Géza - Opium and other stories (translated from the Hungarian)
- De Céspedes, Alba - Forbidden notebook: a novel (translated from the Italian) (ebook available)
- Ellis, Bret Easton - The shards
- Ganeshananthan, V. V - Brotherless night: a novel
- Johnson, Chantal V - Post-traumatic: a novel
- Kapoor, Deepti - Age of vice (ebook available)
- Krentz, Jayne Ann - Sleep no more
- Kuang, R. F - Babel: or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution
- Lipman, Elinor - Ms. Demeanor: a novel (ebook available)
- Manzoni, Alessandro - The betrothed: a seventeenth-century Milanese story discovered and rewritten (newly translated from the Italian) (ebook available)
- Markley, Stephen - The deluge (ebook available)
- Moore, Alan - Illuminations: stories
- Ojeda, Mónica - Jawbone (translated from the Spanish)
- Repila, Iván - The ally (translated from the Spanish)
- Van Pelt, Shelby - Remarkably bright creatures: a novel
- Vodolazkin, E. G - Brisbane: a novel (translated from the Russian)
- Winter, Dawn - Sedating Elaine
- Zeldis, Kitty - The dressmakers of Prospect Heights: a novel
- Zhang, Yueran - Cocoon (translated from the Chinese)
See more fiction below in the stacks section
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Bardugo, Leigh - Hell bent (ebook available)
- Box, C. J - Treasure state: a Cassie Dewell novel (ebook available)
- Carlsson, Christoffer - Blaze me a sun: a novel about a crime (translated from the Swedish) (ebook available)
- Carter, Andre - The body falls
- Hand, Elizabeth - Hokuloa road: a novel
- Hays, Katy - The Cloisters: a novel (ebook available)
- Johnstone, Carol - The blackhouse: a novel*
- Marshall, Kate Alice - What lies in the woods
- Wegert, Tessa - The kind to kill
- Worrall, Patrick - The partisan*
POETRY
- English Romantic poets (Jonathan Bate, ed.; Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets)
- Kirsch, Adam - The discarded life: poems
- Lewis, Robin Coste - To the realization of perfect helplessness
- No place like home: poems (Jane Holloway, ed.; Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Reeves, Roger - Best barbarian: poems
- River poems (Henry Hughes, ed.; Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets)
- Stallings, A. E - This afterlife: selected poems
- Wijnberg, Nachoem M. - Nachoem M. Wijnberg (New York Review Books Poets series; translated from the Dutch; selected poems, 1989-2022)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Barkan, Leonard - Reading Shakespeare reading me 822.33 C
- Belcher, Stephen Paterson - Epic traditions of Africa 896 B
- Blaisdell, Robert - Chekhov becomes Chekhov: the emergence of a literary genius, 1886-1887 92 C5157 B
- Canetti, Elias - I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole: an Elias Canetti reader (edited and with an introduction
by Joshua Cohen; translated from the German) 830.81 C - Cocteau, Jean - Letter to the Americans (1949 essay written after trip to NYC; translated from the French) 844 C
- Gross, Kenneth - Dangerous children: on seven novels and a story 809.3 G
- Landy, Joshua - The world according to Proust 843 L
- Pryce-Jones, David - Openings & outings: an anthology 828 P
- Tolstai︠a︡, S. A - Sofia Tolstaya, the author: her literary works in English translation 891.73 T
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - Conversation at Princeton 863 V
- Whitehead, Colson - Conversations with Colson Whitehead (Derek C. Maus, ed.) 823 B
FICTION
- Anderson, Alston - All God's children: a novel (1965; by the author of Lover Man) F A
- Dovlatov, Sergeĭ - The compromise (1983 collection translated from the Russian) F D
- Edgell, Zee - Beka Lamb (acclaimed novel set in 1950s Belize) F E
- Ernaux, Annie - Do what they say or else (2nd novel, published in 1977, by winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature) F E
- Head, Bessie - When rain clouds gather (1968 novel by South African-Motswana author) F H
- Indiana, Gary - Rent boy (McNally Editions republication of 1994 novel set in 1981 New York City) F I
- Lempel, Blume - Oedipus in Brooklyn and other stories (mid-late 20th c. fiction and essays translated from the Yiddish; F L
- Lewis, Herbert Clyde - Gentleman overboard (new edition of this cult classic which was out of print for 70 years) F L
- Manrique, Jaime - Latin moon in Manhattan (1991 novel about Colombian immigrants in NYC) F M
- Mittelhölzer, Edgar - My bones and my flute: a ghost story in the old-fashioned manner (1955 novel by Guyanese author) F M
- NDiaye, Marie - Self-portrait in green (2005 novel by winner of the 2009 Prix Goncourt) F N
- Patterson, Orlando - The children of Sisyphus (1965 novel by prize-winning Jamaican sociologist) F P
- Rivera Garza, Cristina - The Iliac crest (Feminist Press; 1st published in 2002, translated from the Spanish) F R
- Williams, Charles - A touch of death (classic U.S. pulp/noir) F W
ART
- Conaty, Kim - Edward Hopper's New York 759.1 C
- Janssen, Hans - Piet Mondrian: a life: a biography 759.9 J
- Probst, Peter - What is African art?: a short history 709.6 P
- Smokehouse associates (Studio Museum in Harlem; Eric Booker, ed.) 709.7471 S
- Steinberg, Leo - Picasso: selected essays 759.6 P
- Taylor, Alex J - Forms of persuasion: art and corporate image in the 1960s 704 T
ARCHITECTURE
- Rybczynski, Witold - The story of architecture 720.9 R
- Safdie, Moshe - If walls could speak: my life in architecture 720.92 S
- Wells, Emma J - Heaven on Earth: the lives and legacies of the world's greatest cathedrals 726.6 W
PERFORMING ARTS
- Bonneville, Hugh - Playing under the piano: from Downton to darkest Peru 92 B7172 B
- Burnham, Scott G - Mozart's grace 780.92 M
- Copeland, Misty - The wind at my back: resilience, grace, and other gifts from my mentor, Raven Wilkinson 920 C7824 W
- Gorman, Paul - The life and times of Malcolm McLaren: the biography 92 M1517 G
- Walsh, Stephen - The beloved vision: a history of nineteenth century music 780.9 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Baggini, Julian - How the world thinks: a global history of philosophy 109 B
- Brădățan, Costică - In praise of failure: four lessons in humility 158 B
- Matthes, Erich Hatala - Drawing the line: what to do with the work of immoral artists from museums to the movies 175 M
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Acosta, Oscar Zeta - The autobiography of a brown buffalo (introduction by Hunter S. Thompson; Acosta is model for Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) 92 A1857 A
- Bragg, Melvyn - Back in the day: a memoir 92 B8132 B
- Broers, Michael - Napoleon: the decline and fall of an empire: 1811-1821 (3rd volume in epic biography) 92 N216 B
- Mead, Rebecca - Home/land: a memoir of departure and return 92 M481 M
- Meier, Andrew - Morgenthau: power, privilege, and the rise of an American dynasty 920 M8514 M
- Netanyahu, Binyamin - Bibi: my story 92 N4689 N
- Rappaport, Helen - In search of Mary Seacole: the making of a Black cultural icon and humanitarian 92 S43853 R
HISTORY
- Adi, Hakim - African and Caribbean people in Britain: a history 942 A
- Alford, Terry - In the houses of their dead: the Lincolns, the Booths, and the spirits 920 A3885 I
- Brahin, Lisa - Tears over Russia: a search for family and the legacy of Ukraine's pogroms 920 B8138 T
- Burns, Ken - Our America: a photographic history 779 B
- Kalifa, Dominique - The Belle Époque: a cultural history, Paris and beyond 944.08 K
- Kinstler, Linda - Come to this court & cry: how the Holocaust ends 940.5318 K
- McKay, Sinclair - Berlin: life and death in the city at the center of the world 943.1 M
- Myth America: historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past (Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelize, eds.) 973 M
- Nussbaum, Jeff - Undelivered: the never-heard speeches that would have rewritten history 825.08 N
- Pappé, Ilan - A history of modern Palestine 956.94 P
- Walvin, James - A world transformed: slavery in the Americas and the origins of global power 326 W
- Wilson-Lee, Edward - A history of water: being an account of a murder, an epic and two visions of global history 946.9 W
- Women in George Washington's world (Charlene M. Boyer Lewis and George W. Boudreau, eds.) 973.4 W
- Zubok, V. M - Collapse: the fall of the Soviet Union 947.085 Z
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Carnarvon, Fiona - The earl and the pharaoh: from the real Downton Abbey to the discovery of Tutankhamun 932 C
- Lesser, Rachel H - Desire in the Iliad: the force that moves the epic and its audience 883.109 L
- Perring, Dominic - London in the Roman world 913.42 P
- Sidebottom, Harry - The mad emperor: Heliogabalus and the decadence of Rome 937.06 S
- Worthington, Ian - Athens after empire: a history from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian 938 W
NEW YORK CITY
- Almojera, Anthony - Riding the lightning: a year in the life of a New York City paramedic 362.1 A
- Carp, Benjamin L - The Great New York Fire of 1776: a lost story of the American Revolution 974.71 C
- Goldberg, Ro - Boy with the bullhorn: a memoir and history of ACT UP New York 92 G61828 G
- Klaess, John - Breaks in the air: the birth of rap radio in New York City 780.973 K
- Williams, Terry M - The soft city: sex for business and pleasure in New York City 306.7 W
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Greene, Barbara - Too late to turn back: Barbara & Graham Greene in Liberia 916.6 G
- Lincoln, John - One man's Mexico: a record of travels and encounters 917.2 L
- Morrison, Alice - Walking with nomads: one woman's adventures through a hidden world from the Sahara to the Atlas mountains 916.4 M
- Sattin, Anthony - Nomads: the wanderers who shaped our world 901 S
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Crotty, James - Keynes against capitalism: his economic case for liberal socialism 330.1 C
- Hilsenrath, Jon - Yellen: the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval 92 Y431 H
- Miéville, China - A spectre, haunting: on the communist manifesto 335.4 M
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Arendt, Hannah - On lying and politics 320.4 A
- Benda, Julien - The treason of the intellectuals 320.1 B
- Debenedetti, Gabriel - The long alliance: the imperfect union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama 973.932 D
CRIME
- Lance, Peter - Homicide at Rough Point 364.1 L
- Lowry, Beverly - Deer Creek Drive: a reckoning of memory and murder in the Mississippi Delta 364.1 L
- Tetro, Tony - Conartist: the life and crimes of the world's greatest art forger 92 T3494 T
INTELLIGENCE & ESPIONAGE
- Morris, Benny - Sidney Reilly: master spy 92 R3625 M
- Popkin, Jim - Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed 327.12 P
SOCIOLOGY
- Chaney, Sarah - Am I normal?: the 200-year search for normal people (and why they don't exist) 303.3 C
- Davis, Allison - Deep South: a social anthropological study of caste and class (new edition of 1941 classic) 305.5 D
- Heyam, Kit - Before we were trans: a new history of gender 306.76 H
- Lamdan, Sarah - Data cartels: the companies that control and monopolize our information 347.73 L
- Solinger, Rickie - Reproductive politics: what everyone needs to know 363.96 S
RACE IN AMERICA
- Abrams, Dan - Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the criminal trial that launched the Civil Rights Movement 323.1 A
- Ambar, Saladin M. - Stars and shadows: the politics of interracial friendship from Jefferson to Obama 305.8 A
- Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia - Medical bondage: race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology 618 C
SCIENCE & NATURE
- Bashford, Alison - The Huxleys: an intimate history of evolution 920 H986 B
- Rundell, Katherine - The golden mole: and other living treasure 590 R
- Sjöberg, Fredrik - The art of flight 574 S
- Strassmann, Joan - Slow birding: the art and science of enjoying the birds in your own backyard 598.2 S
- Tegmark, Max - Life 3.0: being human in the age of artificial intelligence 001.6 T
RELIGION
- Barton, John - The word: on the translation of the Bible 220.5 B
- Maunder, Chris - Mary: founder of Christianity 232.9 M
- Mochkofsky, Graciela - The prophet of the Andes: an unlikely journey to the promised land 296 M
- Resnick, Irven M - Albertus Magnus and the world of nature 92 A341 R
- The Jewish study Bible (Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds.) 221.1 B
PARANORMAL
- Gaskill, Malcolm - The ruin of all witches: life and death in the New World 133 G
- The Penguin book of exorcisms (Joseph P. Laycock, ed.) 133.4 P