New Books - March 2023
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Azzarone, Stephanie - Heaven on the Hudson: mansions, monuments, and marvels of Riverside Park
- Beckwith, Christopher I. - The Scythian empire: Central Eurasia and the birth of the classical age from Persia to China
- Bradford, Richard - Tough guy: the life of Norman Mailer
- Bringley, Patrick - All the beauty in the world: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
- Ciuraru, Carmela - Lives of the wives: five literary marriages (ebook available)
- Cohan, William D. - Power failure: the rise and fall of an American icon
- Dawson, Suleika - The secret heart: John Le Carré: an intimate memoir
- Fatland, Erika - High: a journey across the Himalaya through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China
- Galeotti, Mark - Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine
- Gilman, Priscilla - The critic's daughter: a memoir (ebook available)
- Graeber, David - Pirate enlightenment, or the real Libertalia
- Harman, Claire - All sorts of lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything
- Harris, Malcolm - Palo Alto: a history of California, capitalism, and the world
- Hurowitz, Richard - In the garden of the righteous: the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust (ebook available)
- Iyer, Pico - The half known life: in search of paradise (ebook available)
- Kreiner, Jamie - The wandering mind: what medieval monks tell us about distraction
- Lafargue, Paul - The right to be lazy: and other writings (translated from the French; New York Review Books; introduction by Lucy Sante)
- Low, Valentine - Courtiers: intrigue, ambition, and the power players behind the house of Windsor
- Matheson, Susan B. - Old age in Greek and Roman art
- The people's tongue: Americans and the English language (Ilan Stavans, ed.)
- Philip, Leila - Beaverland: how one weird rodent made America
- Puchner, Martin - Culture: the story of us, from cave art to K-pop
- Richardson, Robert D. - Three roads back: how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James responded to the greatest losses of their lives
- Self, Will - Why read: selected writings 2001-2021
- Smith, Zadie - The wife of Willesden: incorporating: The wife of Willesden's tale, which tale is preceded by The general lock-in and The wife of Willesden's prologue and followed by A retraction: told in verse couplets, translated from the Chaucerian into North Weezian
- Stewart, James B. - Unscripted: the epic battle for a media empire and the Redstone family legacy (ebook available)
- Turner, Marion - The Wife of Bath: a biography (ebook available)
FICTION
- Ackerman, Sara - The codebreaker's secret
- Bausch, Richard - Playhouse
- Beagin, Jen - Big Swiss: a novel (ebook available)
- Benedict, Marie - The Mitford affair: a novel
- Bracewell, Michael - Unfinished business
- Collins, Max Allan - The big bundle
- Cotterill, Colin - The motion picture teller
- Craig, Charmaine - My nemesis: a novel
- A different sound: stories by mid-century women writers (selected and introduced by Lucy Scholes)
- Engel, Patricia - The faraway world: stories
- Fakih, Kimberly Olson - Little miseries: this is not a story about my childhood: a novel
- Felsen, Yuri - Deceit: a novel (translated from the Russian)
- Goodman, Allegra - Sam: a novel (ebook available)
- Govinden, Niven - Diary of a film
- Harding, Paul - This other Eden: a novel (ebook available)
- Hawkins, Rachel - The Villa (ebook available)
- Haynes, Natalie - Stone blind: a novel
- Hemon, Aleksandar - The world and all that it holds
- Hornby, Gill - Godmersham Park: a novel of the Austen family
- I︠A︡rmysh, Kira - The incredible events in women's cell number 3: a novel
- Jenoff, Pam - Code name Sapphire
- Joyce, Rachel - Maureen: a Harold Fry novel
- Kaplan, Isabel - NSFW: a novel
- Kerangal, Maylis de - Eastbound (translated from the French)
- Kois, Dan - Vintage contemporaries: a novel
- Lester, Natasha - The three lives of Alix St. Pierre
- Ma, Kathryn - The Chinese groove: a novel
- MacKenzie, Victoria - For thy great pain have mercy on my little pain
- Mallon, Thomas - Up with the sun
- Mauvignier, Laurent - The birthday party (translated from the French) (ebook available)
- McFarlane, Fiona - The sun walks down
- Modiano, Patrick - Scene of the crime: a novel (translated from the French)
- Moyes, Jojo - Someone else's shoes (ebook available)
- Muḥammad, Dīnā - Shubeik lubeik (translated from the Arabic)
- Ndala, Blaise - In the belly of the Congo: a novel (translated from the French)
- O'Connor, Joseph - My father's house (ebook available)
- Okri, Ben - The last gift of the master artists
- Power, Henriette Lazaridis - Terra Nova
- Riker, Martin - The guest lecture: a novel
- Rushdie, Salman - Victory city: a novel
- Serge, Victor - Last times (translated from the French)
- Steavenson, Wendell - Margot: a novel
- Stokes-Chapman, Susan - Pandora: a novel in three parts
- Yarmysh, Kira - The incredible events in women's cell number 3 (translated from the Russian)
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Adams, Erin E. - Jackal: a novel
- Adebayo, Ayobami - A spell of good things
- Beaton, M. C. - Death of a traitor (ebook available)
- Cosimano, Elle - Finlay Donovan jumps the gun
- Crombie, Deborah - A killing of innocents: a novel (ebook available)
- Darwent, Heather - The things we do to our friends: a novel*
- Davis, Lindsey - Desperate undertaking: a Flavia Ablia novel*
- De Castrique, Mark - Secret lives
- De Giovanni, Maurizio - Winter swallows: ring down the curtain for Commissario Ricciardi (translated from the Italian) (ebook available)
- Deaver, Jeffery - Hunting time: a Colter Shaw novel
- Emerson, Ramona - Shutter
- Engberg, Katrine - The sanctuary
- Flower, Amanda - Because I could not stop for death: an Emily Dickinson mystery
- Gilman, Davi - Resurrection*
- Goodman, Carol - The disinvited guest: a novel
- Hallett, Janice - The Twyford code: a novel* (ebook available)
- Harper, Jane - Exiles (ebook available)
- Harper, Jordan - Everybody knows
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Before I sleep* (ebook available)
- Hlad, Alan - The book spy
- Hogan, Chuck - Gang land (ebook available)
- Hunter, Stephen - The bullet garden
- Hurwitz, Gregg - The last orphan
- Kellerman, Jonathan - Unnatural history
- Kells, Claire - An unforgiving place
- Kelly, Erin - The skeleton key*
- Kent, Kathleen - Black wolf: a novel
- Koller Croft, Rachel - Stone cold fox
- Lehane, Cornelius - Murder by definition
- May, Peter - A winter grave*
- Mosley, Walter - Every man a king
- Myers, B. R. - A dreadful splendor: a novel
- Perry, Thomas - Murder book (ebook available)
- Preston, Douglas J. - The cabinet of Dr. Leng: a Pendergast novel
- Quartey, Kwei - Last seen in Lapaz
- Reyes, Ana - The house in the pines: a novel
- Robb, J. D. - Encore in death
- Robotham, Michael - Lying beside you: a novel (ebook available)
- Rowell, D. M. - Never name the dead: a novel
- Ryan, Hank Phillippi - The house guest
- Scarrow, Simon - Blackout*
- Stevenson, Benjamin - Everyone in my family has killed someone (ebook available)
- Tracy, P. J. - The devil you know
- Winslow, De'Shawn Charles - Decent people: a novel
*indicates a UK mystery
POETRY
- Brand, Dionne - Nomenclature: new and collected poems
- Harjo, Joy - Weaving sundown in a scarlet light: fifty poems for fifty years
- Mayer, Bernadette - Milkweed smithereens
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Bellamy, Dodie - Bee Reaved 824 B
- Gertzman, Jay A. - Beyond twisted sorrow: the promise of country noir 823.09 G
- Hardie, Philip R. - Celestial aspirations: classical impulses in British poetry and art 809 H
- McPherson, James Alan - On becoming an American writer: essays & nonfiction 824 M
- Nelson, Brian - Emile Zola: a very short introduction 843 Z
- Scharnhorst, Gary - The life of Mark Twain: the final years, 1891-1910 92 T9694 S
- Vargas Llosa, Mario - The call of the tribe 809 V
- Wolfram - Parzival (Penguin Classics; 13th-century Romance; from the German) 831 W
FICTION
- Alomar, Osama - The teeth of the comb & other stories (translated from the Arabic; New Directions) F A
- Benedict, Marie - The other Einstein: a novel (Mileva Marić-Einstein; 2016) F B
- Cicellis, Ka - Death of a town (1954 novel by acclaimed Greek author) F T
- Cooper, Clarence L. - The farm (1969 addiction novel by author of The Scene) F C
- Hofmann, Gert - Veilchenfeld (originally published in Germany in 1986) F H
- Okri, Ben - The freedom artist F O
- Simmons, Herbert - Man walking on eggshells (1957 novel about a jazz musician by author of Corner Boy) F S
- Tabucchi, Antonio - Pereira maintains (2017; translated from the Italian) F T
- Tarkington, Ed - The fortunate ones: a novel (well-reviewed 2021 novel, compared to Gatsby, Moviegoer, etc.) F T
- Wideman, John Edgar - A glance away (1967 debut) F W
ART
- Alexander, M. Darsie - Afterlives: recovering the lost stories of looted art 709 A
- Gentileschi, Artemisia - Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi 92 G338 G
- Hall, James - The artist's studio: a cultural history 709 H
- Hamilton, James - John Constable: a portrait 92 C7562 H
- Humfrey, Peter - Vittore Carpaccio: master storyteller of Renaissance Venice 759.5 C
- Klein, William - William Klein: yes 779 K
- Pastoureau, Michel - White: the history of a color 152 P
ARCHITECTURE
- Guerrero, Pedro E. - Picturing Wright: an album from Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer 779 G
- Kastner, Victoria - Julia Morgan: an intimate biography of the trailblazing architect 720.92 M
- Sackville-West, Robert - Knole: a private view of one of Britain's great houses 728.8 S
PERFORMING ARTS
- Aloff, Mindy - Why dance matters 793.3 A
- Grant, Kevi - Roots of film noir: precursors from the silent era to the 1940s 791.4 G
- Klawans, Stuart - Crooked, but never common: the films of Preston Sturges 791.4 K
- Wilmer, Valerie - As serious as your life: Black music and the free jazz revolution, 1957-1977 780.973 W
PHILOSOPHY
- Austin, Emily A. - Living for pleasure: an epicurean guide to life 121 A
- James, William - Be not afraid of life: in the words of William James 191 J
- McGilchrist, Nigel - When the dog speaks, the philosopher listens: a guide to the greatness of Pythagoras & his curious age 182 M
- Nussbaum, Martha C. - Justice for animals: our collective responsibility 179 N
JOURNALISM
- Hunter-Gault, Charlayne - My people: five decades of writing about Black lives 305.88 H
- McGarr, Kathryn J. - City of newsmen: public lies and professional secrets in Cold War Washington 070.13 M
- Olmsted, Kathryn S. - The newspaper axis: six press barons who enabled Hitler 070.4 O
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Ali, Tariq - Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes 942.082 A
- Bauer, K. Jac - Zachary Taylor: soldier, planter, statesman of the old Southwest 92 T248 B
- Chateaubriand, François-René - Memoirs from beyond the grave: 1800-1815 (translated from the French; New York Review Books) 92 C492 C
- Collins, Max Allan - Spillane: king of pulp fiction: a biography 92 S7574 C
- Fraser, Flora - Flora Macdonald: "pretty young rebel": her life and story 92 M1348 F
- Griffin, Chloé - Edgewise: a picture of Cookie Mueller 92 M9461 G
- Williams, Terry Tempest - Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place 92 W7275 W
HISTORY
- Connolly, Sean - On every tide: the making and remaking of the Irish world 325.2 C
- Dodds Pennock, Caroline - On savage shores: how indigenous Americans discovered Europe 970.6 D
- Granick, Jaclyn - International Jewish humanitarianism in the age of the Great War 940.477 G
- Keates, Jonathan - La serenissima: the story of Venice 945.3 K
- Krauthamer, Barbara - Black slaves, Indian masters: slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the Native American south 326 K
- Wyllie, Jame - Nazi wives: the women at the top of Hitler's Germany 943.085 W
ANTIQUITY & CLASSICS
- Apuleius - The golden ass (Oxford World Classics; translated by P.G. Walsh) 878.9 A
- Doerries, Bryan (translator - All that you've seen here is god: new versions of four Greek tragedies: Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, and Women of Trachis & Aeschylus' Prometheus bound 882.08 A
- Gibson, Roy K. - Man of high empire: the life of Pliny the Younger 92 P72832 G
- Volk, Katharina - The Roman republic of letters: scholarship, philosophy, and politics in the age of Cicero and Caesar 937.02 V
- Vout, Caroline - Exposed: the Greek and Roman body 709.38 V
- Persia: ancient Iran and the classical world (J. Paul Getty Museum; Jeffrey Spier, et al., eds.) 935 P OVERSIZE
SLAVERY, RECONSTRUCTION, CIVIL RIGHTS
- Davis, Thulani - The emancipation circuit: Black activism forging a culture of freedom 973.8 D
- Hartman, Saidiya V. - Scenes of subjection: terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America (foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) 326 H
- Larson, Edward J. - American inheritance: liberty and slavery in the birth of a nation, 1765-1795 326 L
- Marques, Leonardo - The United States and the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, 1776-1867 380.14 M
- Whitaker, Mark - Saying it loud: 1966--the year Black power challenged the civil rights movement 323.4 W
- Williams, Kidada E. - I saw death coming: a history of terror and survival in the war against Reconstruction 973.8 W
- See the list of Black History Month recent arrivals on our blog.
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Grose, Jessica - Screaming on the inside: the unsustainability of American motherhood 392.3 G
- Janega, Eleanor - The once and future sex: going medieval on women's roles in society 305.4 J
- McGregor, Hannah - A sentimental education 305.4 M
- Reagan, Leslie J. - When abortion was a crime: women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973 363.4 R
- See the list of Women's History Month recent arrivals on our blog.
NEW YORK CITY
- Horowitz, Michael L - Divine New York: inside the historic churches and synagogues of Manhattan 726 H
- Kroessler, Jeffrey A. - Sunnyside Gardens: planning and preservation in a historic garden suburb 307 K
- Holland, Joel - NYC storefronts: illustrations of the Big Apple's best-loved spots 917.471 H
- Quinn, Robbie - Street unicorns: bold expressionists of style 779 Q
- Soyer, Daniel - Left in the center: the Liberal Party of New York and the rise and fall of American social democracy 324.273 S
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Samatar, Sofia - The white mosque: a memoir (Uzbekistan; fascinating story) 915.8 S
- Zuker, Fábio - The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon: dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest (translated from the Portuguese by Ezra E. Fitz) 869 Z
- Our lost explorers: the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long 910.4 O
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Gelles, Davi - The man who broke capitalism: how Jack Welch gutted the heartland and crushed the soul of corporate America--and how to undo his legacy 338.7 G
- Gramm, Phil - The myth of American inequality: how government biases policy debate 339.2 G
- Liu, Glory M. - Adam Smith's America: how a Scottish philosopher became an icon of American capitalism 330.1 L
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Haass, Richard - The bill of obligations: the ten habits of good citizens 323.6 H
- Kaplan, Robert D. - The tragic mind: fear, fate, and the burden of power 320.1 K
- Whipple, Chris - The fight of his life: inside Joe Biden's White House 973.934 W
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Kagan, Robert - The ghost at the feast: America and the collapse of world order, 1900-1941 327.73 K
- Zahra, Tara - Against the world: anti-globalism and mass politics between the world wars 909.82 Z
