New Books - February 2020
IN THE LOBBY
NON-FICTION
- Aronson, Amy - Crystal Eastman: a revolutionary life
- Barchas, Janine - The lost books of Jane Austen
- Barry, Lynda - Making comics
- Bernstein, Andrea - American oligarchs: the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- Boxer, Alexander - A scheme of heaven: the history of astrology and the search for our destiny in data
- Caldwell, Christopher - The age of entitlement: America since the sixties
- Calhoun, Ada - Why we can't sleep: women's new midlife crisis
- Eban, Katherine - Bottle of lies: the inside story of the generic drug boom
- Gill, Gillian - Virginia Woolf: and the women who shaped her world
- Harms, Robert W. - Land of tears: the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa
- Inskeep, Steve - Imperfect union: how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War
- Kristof, Nicholas D. - Tightrope: Americans reaching for hope (ebook available)
- Levitin, Daniel J. - Successful aging: a neuroscientist explores the power and potential of our lives
- Marcus, Ruth - Supreme ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the conservative takeover
- Ravitch, Diane - Slaying Goliath: the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America's public schools
- Rosenberg, Jonathan - Dangerous melodies: classical music in America from the Great War through the Cold War
- Rosenberg, Kenneth Paul - Bedlam: an intimate journey into America's mental health crisis
- Scott, Jonathan - How the old world ended: the Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800
- Taylor, Candacy A. - Overground railroad: the Green Book and the roots of Black travel in America
- Wiener, Anna - Uncanny valley: a memoir (ebook available)
- Wood, James - Serious noticing: selected essays, 1997-2019
FICTION
- Albinati, Edoardo - The Catholic school (translated from the Italian)
- Allende, Isabel - A long petal of the sea: a novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Apelfeld, Aharon - To the edge of sorrow (translated from the Hebrew)
- Benedict, Marie - Lady Clementine
- Cercas, Javier - Lord of all the dead: a nonfiction novel (translated from the Spanish)
- Christensen, Lars Saabye - Echoes of the city: Maj and Ewald (translated from the Norwegian)
- Costello, Mary - The river capture
- Cummins, Jeanine - American dirt (ebook available)
- Gibson, William - Agency
- Greenwell, Garth - Cleanness
- Horrocks, Caitlin - The vexations
- Iyer, Lars - Nietzsche and the burbs
- Janeczek, Helena - The girl with the Leica (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein; Europa Editions)
- Kramer, Larry - The American people
- MacLaughlin, Nina - Wake, siren: Ovid resung
- Musil, Robert - Agathe, or the forgotten sister (translated from the German; New York Review Books)
- Nellums, Eliza - All that's bright and gone: a novel
- O'Shaughnessy, Kathy - In love with George Eliot: a novel
- Raimo, Veronica - The girl at the door
- Reid, Kiley - Such a fun age: a novel (ebook available)
- Reve, Gerard - Childhood: two novellas
- Savage, Lila - Say say say: a novel
- VanderMeer, Jeff - Dead astronauts
- Waldman, Amy - A door in the earth
- See more recent fiction arrivals in the stacks section of the list below.
MYSTERIES
- Akers, W. M - Westside: a novel
- Black, Benjamin - The secret guests: a novel*
- Brett, Simon - Blotto, Twinks and the great road race*
- Dundas, Chad - The blaze
- Ellison, J. T - Good girls lie
- Finder, Joseph - House on fire: a novel
- Grant, Andrew - Too close to home: a novel
- Hauty, Chris - Deep state: a thriller
- Johansen, Iris - Hindsight
- Lagercrantz, David - The girl who lived twice
- Luna, Louisa - The Janes
- MacBride, Stuart - All that's dead*
- Moore, Liz - Long bright river
- Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson - The sacrament: a novel
- Pressfield, Steven - 36 righteous men
- Rankin, Ian - Westwind*
- Stabenow, Dana - No fixed line
- Steadman, Catherine - Mr. Nobody: a novel*
- White, Christian - The wife and the widow
- Woods, Stuart - Treason
- * Indicates a British mystery
STORY COLLECTIONS
- Hall, Sarah - Sudden traveler
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- Trueblood, Valerie - Terrarium: new and selected stories
POETRY
- Hass, Robert - Summer snow: new poems
- Parker, Morgan - Magical negro
- Prikryl, Jana - No matter
- Smith, Danez - Homie
- See more recent poetry arrivals in the stacks section of the list.
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Anatomy: exploring the human body
- Law, Michael John - Not like home: American visitors to Britain in the 1950s
- Melber, Henning - Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the decolonisation of Africa
- Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. - Barrio America: how Latino immigrants saved the American city
- Shetterly, Susan Hand - Seaweed chronicles: a world at the water's edge
- Wannous, Sa'dallah - Sentence to hope: a Sa?dallah Wannous reader
- Uruk: first city of the ancient world (Nicola Crüsemann, et al., eds.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE, BELLES LETTRES
- Camus, Albert - Create dangerously: the power and responsibility of the artist 845 C
- Davis, Lydia - The cows 824 D
- Face Zion forward: first writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798 (Joanna Brooks & John Saillant, eds.) 820.8 F
- Frank, Joseph - Lectures on Dostoevsky 891.73 D
- Grigor'ev, Apollon Aleksandrovich - My literary and moral wanderings: and other autobiographical material 891.7 G
- Haslam, Nicholas - The impatient pen: printed matter: observations, critiques & tributes 824 H
- Love & marriage in early African America 820.8 L
- Mullen, Bill - James Baldwin: living in fire 92 B1812 M
- Okri, Ben - A time for new dreams: poetic essays 824 O
- Peters, Frederick G. - Robert Musil, master of the hovering life: a study of the major fiction 833 M
FICTION
- Krasznahorkai, László - War & war (translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes; New Directions) F K
- Lampe, Friedo - At the edge of the night (First published in German in 1933; translated 2019) F L
- McDowell, Michael - Katie (cult horror novel set in 19th century New York) F M
- Odoevtseva, Irina - Isolde (translated from the Russian; originally published, 1929; Pushkin Press) F O
- Perumal Murugan - The story of a goat (translated from the Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman) F P
- Schneider, Robert - Brother of sleep (translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside) F S
- Tuomainen, Antti - The man who died (translated from the Finnish by David Hackston) F T
POETRY
- Christle, Heather - The crying book 821 C
- Cooley, Nicole - The afflicted girls: poems 821 C
- Denby, Edwin - The complete poems 821 D
- Fagles, Robert - I, Vincent: poems from the pictures of Van Gogh 821 F
- Mickiewicz, Adam - Adam Mickiewicz, 1798-1855: selected poems 891.85 M
- Snodgrass, W. D. - After-images: autobiographical sketches 92 S6728 S
BOOKS & READING
- DiCuirci, Lindsay - Colonial revivals: the nineteenth-century lives of early American books 002 D
- Jack, Belinda Elizabeth - Reading: a very short introduction 028 J
- Taylor, Helen - Why women read fiction: the stories of our lives 028 T
ART
- Cult of the machine: precisionism and American art (Emma Acker, et al., eds.) 709.73 C
- Einstein, Carl - A mythology of forms: selected writings on art 701 E
- The life of animals in Japanese art (Robert Singer, et al., eds.) 709.52 L
- Mason, Raymond - At work in Paris: Raymond Mason on art and artists 709.2 M
- Pop, Andrei - A forest of symbols: art, science, and truth in the long nineteenth century 701 P
- Trant, Carolyn - Voyaging out: British women artists from suffrage to the sixties 704 T
- Wallace, William E. - Michelangelo, God's architect: the story of his final years and greatest masterpiece 709.2 M
MUSIC
- Hough, Stephen - Rough ideas: reflections on music and more 780.921 H
- Isacoff, Stuart - When the world stopped to listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War triumph and its aftermath 780.92 C
- Ziolkowski, Theodore - Music into fiction: composers writing, compositions imitated 780 Z
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Brouws, Jeffrey T. - Some vernacular railroad photographs 779 B
- Perckhammer, Heinz von - Peking (1920s photography; really nice) 779 P
- Stieglitz, Alfred - Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes 770 S
FOOD
- Condé, Maryse - Of morsels and marvels 92 C7452 C
- Crapanzano, Aleksandra - The London cookbook: recipes from the restaurants, cafes, and hole-in-the-wall gems of a modern city 641.5 C
- Sercarz, Lior Lev - The spice companion: a guide to the world of spices 641.5 S
ANTIQUITY
- Cotterell, Arthur - The first great powers: Babylon and Assyria 935 C
- De la Bédoyère, Guy - Domina: the women who made imperial Rome 937.06 D
- Furlotti, Barbara - Antiquities in motion: from excavation sites to Renaissance collections 749.1 F
- Villing, Alexandra - Troy: myth and reality 939.2 V OVERSIZE
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is available to members. See the Electronic Resources page on our website.
HISTORY
- Crowley, Roger - The accursed tower: the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades 940.1 C
- Duane, Anna Mae - Educated for freedom: the incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation 325.26 D
- Duffy, Joe - Children of the Troubles: the untold story of the children killed in the Northern Ireland conflict 941.5 D
- Hunter, Michael - The decline of magic: Britain in the Enlightenment 942.07 H
- Muir, Rory - Gentlemen of uncertain Fortune: how younger sons made their way in Jane Austen's England 940.2 M
- Naimark, Norman M - Stalin and the fate of Europe: the postwar struggle for sovereignty 940.55 N
- Puri, Kavita - Partition voices: untold British stories 954 P
- Townsend, Camilla - Fifth sun: a new history of the Aztecs 972 T
- Zucchino, David - Wilmington's lie: the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy 973.8 Z
MILITARY HISTORY
- Andreas, Peter - Killer high: a history of war in six drugs 362.293 A
- The last card: inside George W. Bush's decision to surge in Iraq (Timonty Andews, et al., ed.) 956.704 L
- Peiss, Kathy Lee - Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe 940.5316 P
- Walter, Jerzy - Sons of one nation: the war effort of the Polish emigration in America, 1914-1920: a collection of documents and historical materials, New York-Chicago 1957, Warszawa, 2001 305.83 W OVERSIZE
SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL HISTORY
- Canada, Geoffrey - Fist, stick, knife, gun: a personal history of violence in America 303.6 C
- Chatelain, Marcia - Franchise: the golden arches in Black America 325.26 C
- Duncan, Stephen R. - The rebel café: sex, race, and politics in Cold War America's nightclub underground 306.4 D
- Farber, David R. - Crack: rock cocaine, street capitalism, and the decade of greed 362.293 F
- Jackson, Lauren Michele - White Negroes: when cornrows were in vogue ... and other thoughts on cultural appropriation 306.4 J
- McGreal, Chris - American overdose: the opioid tragedy in three acts 362.293 M
MIGRANTS & REFUGEES
- Caplan, Bryan Douglas - Open borders: the science and ethics of immigration 304.8 C
- Friedland, Joshua M. - The lamp beside the golden door: the story of the New York Association for New Americans: the first fifty years 361 F
- Salam, Reihan - Melting pot or civil war?: a son of immigrants makes the case against open borders 325.73 S
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Democracies divided: the global challenge of political polarization (Thomas Carothers, Andrew O'Donohue, eds.; Brookings Institution) 320.9 D
- Kaiser, Brittany - Targeted: the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower's inside story of how big data, Trump, and Facebook broke democracy and how it can happen again 324 K
- Krastev, Ivan - The light that failed: a reckoning 320.1 K
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- McCarraher, Eugene - The enchantments of Mammon: how capitalism became the religion of modernity 330.1 M
- Milanovic, Branko - Capitalism, alone: the future of the system that rules the world 330.1 M
- Philippon, Thomas - The great reversal: how America gave up on free markets 330.973 P
LAW
- Fight of the century: writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases (Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman, eds.) 323.4 F
- Friedman, Lawrence M - A history of American law (new edition)340 F
- Slauter, Will - Who owns the news?: a history of copyright 347.73 S
CRIME
- Corona, Martin - Confessions of a cartel hit man 92 C8223 C
- English, T. J. - The Corporation: an epic story of the Cuban American underworld 364.1 E
- McGough, Matthew - The Lazarus files: a cold case investigation 364.1 M
SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY
- Benton, M. J. - Dinosaurs rediscovered: the scientific revolution in paleontology 560 B
- Brown, Charles Robert - Swallow summer 598.2 B
- Humboldt, Alexander von - Selected writings (edited and introduced by Andrea Wulf) 508 H
- Tuttle, Merlin D - The secret lives of bats: my adventures with the world's most misunderstood mammals 599 T
- Whelan, Richard - The book of rainbows: art, literature, science, & mythology 551.5 W
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
- Burroughs, Augusten - Toil & trouble 92 B972 B
- Hobsbawm, Marlene - Meet me in Buenos Aires: a memoir (introduction by Claire Tomalin) 92 H68421 H
- Hrabal, Bohumil - All my cats 92 H87310 H
- Light, Alison - A radical romance: a memoir of love, grief and consolation 92 L7236 L
- Lowe, David E - Touched with fire: Morris B. Abram and the battle against racial and religious discrimination 92 A1598 L
- Shan, Weijian - Out of the Gobi: my story of China and America 92 S52852 S
- Siemann, Wolfram - Metternich: strategist and visionary 92 M5956 D
PHILOSOPHY
- Di Cesare, Donatella - Heidegger and the Jews: the Black notebooks 193 H
- Hallie, Philip P - Tales of good and evil, help and harm 170 H
- Ruse, Michael - On purpose 124 R
TRAVEL
- Fatland, Erika - Sovietistan: travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan 915.8 F
- Murphy, Dervla - Where the Indus is young: a winter in Baltistan 915.4 M
- Travels with a writing brush: classical Japanese travel writing from the Manyoshu to Basho (Penguin Classics; Meredith McKinney, translator and editor) 915.2 T
NEW YORK
- Duempelmann, Sonja - Seeing trees: a history of street trees in New York City and Berlin 307.76 D
- Goldstein, Leo - East Harlem : the post war years 779 G
- Povitz, Lana Dee - Stirrings: how activist New Yorkers ignited a movement for food justice 361.8 P
- Weiss, Nancy J. - Charles Francis Murphy, 1858-1924: respectability and responsibility in Tammany politics 974.71 W
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
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