New Books - January 2019
NON-FICTION
- Best American food writing 2018 (Ruth Reichl, ed.)
- Dear Los Angeles: the city in diaries and letters 1542 to 2018 (David Kipen, ed.)
- Anderson, Sam, - Boom town: the fantastical saga of Oklahoma city, its chaotic founding, its apocalyptic weather, its purloined basketball team, and the dream of becoming a world-class metropolis
- Asquith, Clare - Shakespeare and the resistance: the Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the poems that challenged Tudor tyranny
- Chernaik, Judith - Schumann: the faces and the masks
- Christensen, Inger - The condition of secrecy: selected essays
- Chung, Nicole - All you can ever know: a memoir
- Cuthbertson, Guy - Peace at last: a portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
- Franzen, Jonathan - The end of the end of the earth: essays
- Goodman, Ruth - How to behave badly in Elizabethan England: a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts
- Griffin, Mar - All that heaven allows: a biography of Rock Hudson
- Gubar, Susan - Late-life love: a memoir
- Hart, Peter - The last battle: victory, defeat, and the end of World War I
- Helmreich, William B. - The Manhattan nobody knows: an urban walking guide
- Hockenos, Matthew D. - Then they came for me: Martin Niemöller, the pastor who defied the Nazis
- Jones, Colin - Versailles
- King, Christopher C. - Lament from Epirus: an odyssey into Europe's oldest surviving folk music
- Laurens, Camille - Little dancer aged fourteen: the true story behind Dega's masterpiece
- Longworth, Karina - Seduction: sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
- Mayor, Adrienne - Gods and robots: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
- Morris, Thomas - The mystery of the exploding teeth: and other curiosities from the history of medicine
- Nevala-Lee, Alec - Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of science fiction
- Strausbaugh, John - Victory City: a history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
- Teicher, Craig Morgan - We begin in gladness: how poets progress: essays
- Tichi, Cecelia - What would Mrs. Astor do?: the essential guide to the manners and mores of the Gilded Age
- Weidermann, Volker - Dreamers: when the writers took power, Germany, 1919
- Yang, Wesley - The souls of yellow folk: essays
- Young, R. J. - Let it bang: a young black man's reluctant odyssey into guns
FICTION
- Ajvide Lindqvist, John - I am behind you (translated from the Swedish)
- Barbash, Tom - The Dakota Winters: a novel
- Carey, Edward - Little
- Davies, Carys - West: a novel
- Despentes, Virginie - Vernon Subutex & Vernon subutex 2 (translated from the French)
- George, Margaret - The splendor before the dark: a novel of the Emperor Nero
- Hagy, Alyson Carol - Scribe: a novel
- Harding, Georgina - Land of the living
- Harvey, Samantha - The western wind
- Henry, Patti Callahan - Becoming Mrs. Lewis: a novel: the improbable love story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis
- Kennedy, A. L. - The little snake
- Kiesling, Lydia - The Golden State
- Miano, Léonora - Season of the shadow (translated from the French)
- Mirza, Fatima Farheen - A place for us: a novel
- Oates, Joyce Carol - Hazards of time travel
- Pedrosa, Inês - In your hands (translated from the Portuguese)
- Roberts, Nora. - Of blood and bone
- Rose, Heathe, - The museum of modern love
- Roy, Anuradha - All the lives we never lived: a novel
- Schott, Ben - Jeeves and the king of clubs: a novel in homage to P.G. Wodehouse
- Schulman, Helen - Come with me: a novel
- Setterfield, Diane - Once upon a river: a novel
- Sparks, Nicholas - Every breath
- Tamirat, Nafkote - The parking lot attendant: a novel
- Taneja, Preti - We that are young
- Tillyard, S. K. - The great level
- Trigiani, Adriana - Tony's wife: a novel
- Weldon, Fay - After the peace
- Yan, Lianke - The day the sun died: a novel (translated from the Chinese)
- Yokoyama, Hideo - Seventeen (translated from the Japanese)
- Zeldis, Kitty - Not our kind: a novel
more recent fiction arrivals below
MYSTERIES
- Brodrick, William - The silent ones
- Brown, Rita Mae - Homeward hound: a novel
- Bruen, Ken - In the Galway silence: a Jack Taylor novel
- Bussi, Michel, - Don't let go/
- Cleeland, Anne - Murder in spite: a Doyle and Acton mystery*
- Cross, A. J. - Cold, cold heart*
- Fowler, Christopher. - Bryant & May: hall of mirrors*
- Furlong, Susan - Fractured truth
- Hamilton, Steve - Dead man running
- Handler, David - The man who couldn't miss: a Stewart Hoag mystery
- Harris, Robert J. - The thirty-one kings: Richard Hannay returns
- Higashino, Keigo - Newcomer (translated from the Japanese)
- Jewell, Lisa - Watching you*
- Lupica, Mike - Robert B. Parker's Blood feud
- McDermid, Val - Broken ground*
- Patterson, James - Target Alex Cross
- Rademacher, Cay - The forger*
- Robertson, Michael - A Baker Street wedding*
- Robotham, Michael - The other wife
- Seymour, Gerald - A damned serious business*
- Thomson, E. S. - The blood*
- Truss, Lynne - A shot in the dark*
- Tursten, Helene - An elderly lady is up to no good (translated from the Swedish)
- Woods, Stuart - A delicate touch
SHORT STORIES
- Kono, Taeko - Toddler-hunting and other stories (translated from the Japanese)
- Motoya, Yukiko - The lonesome bodybuilder: stories (translated from the Japanese)
- Zhadan, Serhii - Mesopotamia (translated from the Ukranian)
POETRY
- Armantrout, Rae - Wobble
- Asghar, Fatimah - If they come for us: poems
- Barnett, Catherine - Human hours: poems
- Davis, Dick - Love in another language: collected poems and selected translations
- Jernigan, Amanda - Years, months, and days: poems
- Lauterbach, Ann - Spell
- Le Guin, Ursula K. - So far so good: final poems: 2014-2018
- Martinez, J. Michael - Museum of the Americas
- Reid, Alastair - Barefoot: the collected poems
- Spires, Elizabeth - A memory of the future: poems
- Stallings, A. E. - Like
- Stonecipher, Donna - Transaction histories
- Tobin, Daniel - Blood labors
- Yang, Jeffrey - Hey, Marfa: poems
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- All that is evident is suspect: readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018 (Ian Mon & Daniel Levvnin Backer, eds.)
- Pascal's wager (Paul Bartha, Lawrence Pasternack, eds.; Cambridge U. Press Classical Philosophical Arguments series)
- Belew, Kathleen - Bring the war home: the white power movement and paramilitary America
- Brown, Jeremy - Influenza: the hundred-year hunt to cure the deadliest disease in history
- Burroughs, William S. - William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": an electronic revolution
- Ekhtiar, Maryam - How to read Islamic calligraphy
- Ellstrand, Norman Carl - Sex on the kitchen table: the romance of plants and your food
- Haberman, Arthu, - 1930: Europe in the shadow of the beast
- Poonam, Snigdha - Dreamers: how young Indians are changing the world
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IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Roberto Bolaño as world literature (Nicholas Birns and Juan E. De Castro., eds.) 863 R
- Thus spake the corpse: an Exquisite corpse reader, 1988-1998, Volume 1, Poetry & essays (Andrei Codrescu & Laura Rosenthal, eds.) 820.8 T
- Women at work: interviews from the Paris review (volume 2 also available) 809 W
- Leiris, Michel - Nights as day, days as night (dream diary; 1961, translated from the French) 848 L
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - The annotated Frankenstein 823 S
- Spackman, W. M. - On the decay of criticism: the complete essays of W.M. Spackman 824 S
- Treharne, Elaine M. - Medieval literature: a very short introduction 809 T
- Wilde, Oscar - The annotated prison writings of Oscar Wilde 828 W
FICTION
- The Penguin book of the contemporary British short story;from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith (selected and introduced by Philip Hensher) F P
- Andric, Ivo - Omer Pasha Latas (NYRB Classics; translated from the Serbo-Croatian; introduction by William T. Vollmann) F A
- Lem, Stanislaw - Solaris (1970 sci-fi classic, translated from the French) F L
- Miyazawa, Kenji - Once and forever: the tales of Kenji Miyazawa (NYRB Classics; translated from the Japanese) F M
- Piglia, Ricardo - The diaries of Emilio Renzi: the happy years (translated from the Spanish) F P
- Serre, Anne - The governesses (New Directions, translated from the French) F S
POETRY
- Christina Rossetti: poetry in art (Susan Owens & Nichola Tromans, ed.) 821.09 R
- Ozerov, Lev - Portraits without frames (NYRB Classics; translated from the Russian) 891.71 O
- Sato, Hiroaki, - On haiku 809.1 S
- Wroe, Ann. - Francis: a life in songs 821 W
ART
- Oceania (Peter Brunt & Nicholas Thomas, eds.) 709.9 O
- Stones to stains: the drawings of Victor Hugo (Cynthia Burlingham and Allegra Pesenti, eds.) 741 S
- Bedell, Rebecca Bailey - Moved to tears: rethinking the art of the sentimental in the United States 704.94 B
- Clark, T. J. - Heaven on earth: painting and the life to come 701 C
- Esplund, Lance - The art of looking: how to read modern and contemporary art 709.04 E
- Fishman, Solomon - The interpretation of art: essays on the art criticism of John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and Herbert Read 701 F
- Haygood, Wil - I too sing America: the Harlem Renaissance at 100 709.7471 H
- Morisot, Berthe - Berthe Morisot: woman impressionist 759.4 M
- Umberger, Leslie - Between worlds: the art of Bill Traylor 709.73 T
CRAFTS
- Parkes, Clara - The knitter's book of wool: the ultimate guide to understanding, using, and loving this most fabulous fiber 746 P
- St. Clair, Kassia - The golden thread: how fabric changed history 677 S
- Vejar, Kristine - The modern natural dyer: a comprehensive guide to dyeing silk, wool, linen, and cotton at home 667.2 V
DESIGN & DECORATIVE ARTS
- Friedman, Marilyn F. - Making America modern: interior design in the 1930s 747 F
- Zamperini, Alessandra - Ornament and the grotesque: fantastical decoration from antiquity to art nouveau 751.1 Z OVERSIZE
PERFORMING ARTS
- Dance in America: a reader's anthology (Mindy Aloff, ed.; Library of America) 792.8 D
- Dramatic exchanges: the lives & letters of the National Theatre (Daniel Rosenthal, ed.) 792.0942 D
- Gordon, Maxine - Sophisticated giant: the life and legacy of Dexter Gordon 780.921 G
- Mekas, Jonas - Conversations with film-makers: movie journal columns 1961-1975 791.4 M
- Poser, Norman S. - The birth of modern theatre: rivalry, riots, and romance in the age of Garrick 792.09 P
ANTIQUITY
- Palmyra: mirage in the desert (Joan Aruz, ed.) 939.4 P
- Cooney, Kara - When women ruled the world: six queens of Egypt 932 C
- Gordon, Colin D. - The age of Attila: fifth-century Byzantium and the Barbarians 936 G
- Spawforth, Antony - The story of Greece and Rome 938 S
- The Loeb Classical Library digital edition is now available to members. For more information, see the Electronic Resources page on our website or ask at the reference desk.
HISTORY
- Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans tell about life in the segregated South (Willam H. Chafe, et al., eds.) 305.88 R
- Addis, Ferdinand - The eternal city: a history of Rome 945.6 A
- Brundage, W. Fitzhugh - Civilizing torture: an American tradition 323.4 B
- Fauvelle-Aymar, François-Xavier - The golden rhinoceros: histories of the African Middle Ages 960 F
- Frank, Dana - The long Honduran night: resistance, terror, and the United States in the aftermath of the coup 972.8 F
- Holland, R. F. - The warm south: how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination 909 H
- Horn, James P. P. - 1619: Jamestown and the forging of American democracy 973.2 H
- Lord, Evelyn - The Great Plague: a people's history 942.1 L
- Schulten, Susan - A history of America in 100 maps 911 S OVERSIZE
- Viano, Francesca Lidia - Sentinel: the unlikely origins of the Statue of Liberty 974.71 V
WAR
- Carmichael, Peter S. - The war for the common soldier: how men thought, fought, and survived in Civil War armies 973.7 C
- Glatthaar, Joseph T. - The American military: a concise history 355 G
- Milton, Giles - D-Day: the soldiers story 940.542 M
JOURNALISM
- Hilsum, Lindsey - In extremis: the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin 92 C7274 H
- Rusbridger, Alan - Breaking news: the remaking of journalism and why it matters now 070 R
BIOGRAPHY
- Beer, Anna R. - Patriot or traitor: the life and death of Sir Walter Ralegh 942.05 B
- Decker, Gunnar - Hesse: the wanderer and his shadow 92 H5875 D
- Klotter, James C. - Henry Clay: the man who would be president 92 C619 K
- Miller, William - Gloucester Crescent: me, my dad and other grown-ups 92 M6524 M
- Payton, Barbara - I am not ashamed (memoir) 92 P3475 P
- Sperling, Joshua - A writer of our time: the life and work of John Berger 92 B4963 S
- Stadiem, William - Madame Claude: her secret world of pleasure, privilege, and power 92 G8859 S
PHILOSOPHY
- The brain in a vat (Sanford C. Goldberg, ed.; Classic philosophical arguments series) 128 B
- Baggini, Julian - How the world thinks: a global history of philosophy 109 B
- Gardiner, Patrick L. - Kierkegaard: a very short introduction 198 G
- Midgley, Mary - The essential Mary Midgley 192 M
- O'Connor, Brian - Idleness: a philosophical essay 190 O
- Voltaire - Voltaire's revolution: writings from his campaign to free laws from religion 194 V
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Impeachment: an American history (Jeffrey A. Engel, et al., eds.) 353.03 I
- Bernstein, Richard J. - Why read Hannah Arendt now 320.1 B
- Daoud, Kamel - Chroniques: selected columns, 2010-2016 (author of The Meursault Investigation) 965 D
- Keyssar, Alexander - The right to vote: the contested history of democracy in the United States 342.73 K
- Weiner, Greg - American Burke: the uncommon liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan 320.1 W
SOCIOLOGY
- Duberman, Martin B. - Has the gay movement failed? 306.76 D
- Geissler, Heike - Seasonal associate (account of working in an Amazon fulfillment center) 331.2 G
- Reich, Rob - Just giving: why philanthropy is failing democracy and how it can do better 361 R
- Stein, Arlene - Unbound: transgender men and the remaking of identity 306.76 S
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Blackwell, Alice Stone - Lucy Stone: pioneer of woman's rights (1930) 92 S8783 B
- Gilmore, Leigh - Tainted witness: why we doubt what women say about their lives 342.73 G
- Hooks, Bell - Communion: the female search for love 305.4 H
- Strömquist, Liv - Fruit of knowledge: the vulva vs. the patriarchy 305.4 S
NEW YORK
- Burrows, Edwin G. - The finest building in America: the New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858 917.471 B
- McDarrah, Fred W. - Fred W. McDarrah: New York scenes (photography) 779 M
RELIGION
- Duffy, Eamon - Royal books and holy bones: essays in medieval Christianity 270.1 D
- Jacobs, Alan - The year of our Lord 1943: Christian humanism in an age of crisis 261 J
- Tyerman, Christopher - The Crusades: a very short introduction 940.1 T
TRAVEL
- A traveller's companion to Florence (Edward Chaney, ed.) 914.55 F
- Barkham, Patrick - Islander: a journey around our archipelago 914.2 B
- Neville, Peter - A traveller's history of Ireland 941.5 N
- Russell, Francis - 123 places in Turkey: a private grand tour 914.962 R
FOOD
- Carrillo Arronte, Margarita - Mexico: the cookbook 641.5 C
- Hood, Ann - Kitchen yarns: notes on life, love, and food 641 H
- Nestle, Marion - Unsavory truth: how food companies skew the science of what we eat 394.1 N
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