New Books May 2021
IN THE LOBBY
NONFICTION
- Bailey, Blake - Philip Roth: the biography (ebook available)
- Batalion, Judith - The light of days: the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos (ebook available)
- Bay, Mia - Traveling Black: a story of race and resistance
- Beard, Jo Ann - Festival days (ebook available)
- Becker, Elizabeth - You don't belong here: how three women rewrote the story of war
- Bergreen, Laurence - In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire (ebook available)
- Biden, Robert Hunter - Beautiful things: a memoir (ebook available)
- Bourdain, Anthony - World travel: an irreverent guide
- Brennan, Timothy - Places of mind: a life of Edward Said
- Brooke-Hitching, Edward - The madman's library: the strangest books, manuscripts and other literary curiosities from history
- Byrne, Paula - The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: a biography
- Carroll, James - The truth at the heart of the lie: how the Catholic Church lost its soul: a memoir of faith
- Cash, Johnny - Johnny Cash: the last interview and other conversations
- Challenger, Melanie - How to be animal: a new history of what it means to be human
- Colley, Linda - The gun, the ship, and the pen: warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world
- Cooke, Julia - Come fly the world: the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Crowther, Gail - Three-martini afternoons at the Ritz: the rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
- DelGaudio, Derek - Amoralman: a true story and other lies
- Dihle, Bjorn - A shape in the dark: living and dying with brown bears
- Drury, Bob - Blood and treasure: Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Duckworth, Tammy - Every day is a gift: a memoir
- Dyja, Tom - New York, New York, New York: four decades of success, excess, and transformation (ebook available)
- Febos, Melissa - Girlhood: essays
- Frankel, Glenn - Shooting Midnight cowboy: art, sex, loneliness, liberation, and the making of a dark classic
- Gornick, Vivian - Taking a long look: essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time
- Grant, Will - ¡Populista!: the rise of Latin America's 21st century strongman
- Ḥakakian, Roya - A beginner's guide to America: for the immigrant and the curious
- Hiss, Tony - Rescuing the planet: protecting half the land to heal the earth
- Homestead, Melissa J. - The only wonderful things: the creative partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
- Jaouad, Suleika - Between two kingdoms: a memoir of a life interrupted
- Kaiser, Menachem - Plunder: a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure (ebook available)
- Keefe, Patrick Radden - Empire of pain: the secret history of the Sackler dynasty (ebook available)
- Kushner, Rachel - The hard crowd: essays 2000-2020 (ebook available)
- MacGillis, Alec - Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America
- Matthews, Roderick - Peace, poverty and betrayal: a new history of British India
- Merrill, James - A whole world: letters from James Merrill (Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser, eds.)
- Morris, Jan - Allegorizings
- Morton, Andrew - Elizabeth & Margaret: the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Nemerov, Alexander - Fierce poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York (ebook available)
- Page, Susan - Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power
- Selvaratnam, Tanya - Assume nothing: a story of intimate violence
- Stone, Sharon - The beauty of living twice
- Taylor, Craig - New Yorkers: a city and its people in our time (ebook available)
- Tonelli, Guido - Genesis: the story of how everything began
- Tumulty, Karen - The triumph of Nancy Reagan
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Cosmic queries: StarTalk's guide to who we are, how we got here, and where we're going
- Warner, Marina - Inventory of a life mislaid: an unreliable memoir
- Weidensaul, Scott - A world on the wing: the global odyssey of migratory birds
- White, Edward - The twelve lives of Alfred Hitchcock: an anatomy of the master of suspense (ebook available)
- The wild isles: an anthology of the best British & Irish nature writing (Patrick Barnham, ed.)
FICTION
- Abdoh, Salar - Out of Mesopotamia
- Ackerman, Elliot - 2034: a novel of the next world war
- Buckley, Jonathan - Live; live; live
- Chen, Te-Ping - Land of big numbers
- Condé, Maryse - The belle Créole (translated from the French)
- Daoud, Kamel - Zabor, or the psalms (translated from the French)
- De Bernières, Louis - The autumn of the ace
- Deabler, Justin - Lone stars
- Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit - The faces (translated from the Danish)
- Ekvtimishvili, Nana - The pear field (translated from the Georgian)
- Enriquez, Mariana - The dangers of smoking in bed: stories
- Epstein, Allison - A tip for the hangman: a novel
- Fagan, Jenni - Luckenbooth
- Fernández, Nona - The twilight zone
- Flanagan, Richard - The living sea of waking dreams
- Galgut, Damon - The promise
- Garcia, Gabriela - Of women and salt
- Grattan, Thomas - The recent east
- Greenidge, Kaitlyn - Libertie: a novel (ebook available)
- Grisham, John - Sooley: a novel
- Hawkins, Rachel - The wife upstairs
- Heiny, Katherine - Early morning riser (ebook available)
- Kerangal, Maylis de - Painting time (translated from the French)
- Labatut, Benjamín - When we cease to understand the world
- Lee, Andrea - Red island house: a novel
- Lewis, Jim - Ghosts of New York: a novel
- Lispector, Clarice - An apprenticeship, or, The book of pleasures (translated from the Portuguese)
- Mallery, Susan - The vineyard at Painted Moon
- Mallon, Michael - The disciple: a novel
- McCracken, Elizabeth - The souvenir museum: stories
- Mozley, Fiona - Hot stew: a novel (ebook available)
- Murakami, Haruki - First person singular: stories (translated from the Japanese) (ebook available)
- Ní Ghríofa, Doireann - A ghost in the throat
- Oyeyemi, Helen - Peaces (ebook available)
- Ozick, Cynthia - Antiquities
- Penner, Sarah - The lost apothecary
- Sathian, Sanjena - Gold diggers
- Schell, Orville - My old home: a novel of exile
- Schofield, Anakana - Bina: a novel in warnings (ebook available)
- Smallwood, Christine - The life of the mind: a novel
- Stafford, Jean - Jean Stafford: complete stories & other writings
- Stonex, Emma - The lamplighters
- Swanson, Peter - Every vow you break: a novel (ebook available)
- Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix - Good company: a novel (ebook available)
- Theroux, Paul - Under the wave at Waimea
- Welch, James - Winter in the blood
- Winter, Jessica - The fourth child: a novel
- Wood, Benjamin - A station on the path to somewhere better
- Wright, Richard - The man who lived underground: a novel (first full publication of important 1940s novel)
- Zeniter, Alice - The art of losing (translated from the French) (ebook available)
- more fiction below in the stacks
MYSTERIES & CRIME FICTION
- Aimaq, Jasmine - The opium prince
- Archer, Jeffrey - Turn a blind eye *
- Bennett, S. J. - The Windsor knot*
- Berry, Flynn - Northern spy*
- Camilleri, Andrea - The cook of the Halcyon (translated from the Italian)
- Christy, Bryan - In the company of killers
- Ellison, J. T. - Her dark lies
- Evanovich, Janet - The bounty
- Harris, C. S. - What the devil knows: a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery*
- Hillerman, Anne - Stargazer: a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel
- Katsu, Alma - Red widow: a novel
- La Plante, Lynda - Judas horse*
- Lawson, Michael - House standoff
- Matheson, Nadine - The Jigsaw man*
- McCall Smith, Alexander - Your inner hedgehog: a Professor Dr. von Igelfeld entertainment novel
- McLain, Paula - When the stars go dark: a novel (ebook available)
- McPherson, Ben - Love and other lies: a novel
- Munier, Paula - The hiding place
- Pearse, Sarah - The sanatorium: a novel
- Perry, Anne - Death with a double edge*
- Pineiro, R.J. - Things we cannot unsee: a novel
- Qiu, Xiaolong - Becoming Inspector Chen
- Ragnar Jónasson - Winterkill (translated from the Icelandic) (ebook available)
- Scottoline, Lisa - Eternal (ebook available)
- Sears, Michael - Tower of Babel
- Siger, Jeffrey - A deadly twist
- Verdon, John - On Harrow Hill: a Dave Gurney novel
- Woods, Stuart - Double jeopardy
* indicates a UK Mystery
POETRY
- Gorman, Amanda - The hill we climb: an inaugural poem for the country
- Mahon, Derek - Washing up
- 100 poems to break your heart (edited by Edward Hirsch) (ebook available)
- more poetry below in the stacks
BOOK COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Drakulić, Slavenka - Café Europa revisited: how to survive post-communism
- Freeberg, Ernest - A traitor to his species: Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- Gioia, Dana - Studying with Miss Bishop: memoirs from a young writers life
- Leonard, Aaron J. - The folk singers and the Bureau: the FBI, the folk artists, and the suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956
- McAlister, Erica - The inside out of flies /
- McAlpine, Erica - The poet's mistake
- Seethaler, Robert - The field
- Raphael, 1520-1483 (Marzia Faietti and Matteo Lafranconi, eds.)
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE & ESSAYS
- Child, Lydia Maria - A Lydia Maria Child reader (19th century abolitionist, women’s rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist) 820.81 C
- Christofi, Alex - Dostoevsky in love: an intimate life 92 D725 C
- Gaitskill, Mary - Lost cat : a memoir 824 G
- Keymer, Thomas - Jane Austen: writing, society, politics 823 A
- Laymon, Kiese - How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays 824 L
- Nadel, Ira Bruce - Philip Roth : a counterlife 92 R8458 N
- Parry, Julia - The shadowy third : love, letters, and Elizabeth Bowen 92 P2644 P
- Pasternak Slater, Ann - The fall of a sparrow : Vivien Eliot's life and writings 92 E4267 P
- Renouard, Maël - Fragments of an infinite memory : my life with the internet (New York Review Books) 848 R
- Worpole, Ken - Dockers and detectives (pioneering study of 20th-century UK working class fiction; Hanley, Baron, etc.) 820.9 W
- Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work (Horace A. Porter, ed.) 823.09 D
POETRY
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich - Voices in the night : the prison poems of Dietrich Bonhoeffer 831 B
- Celan, Paul - Memory rose into threshold speech : the collected earlier poetry 831 C
- Fried, Michael - To the center of the earth 821 F
- Kunial, Zaffar - Us 821 K
- Paterson, Don - The poem : lyric, sign, metre 808.1 P
- Roberts, Stephen - Deep song : the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca 92 G217 R
DRAMA
- Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich - Woe from wit: a verse comedy in four acts (1823; newly translated from the Russian by Betsy Hulick) 891.72 G
- Musil, Robert - Theater symptoms : plays and writing on drama 832 M
- Pinter, Harold - The short plays 822 P
- The Methuen drama anthology of American women playwrights: 1970-2020 (Wesley Brown and Aimee K. Michel, eds.) 822.08 M
FICTION
- Agus, Milena - From the land of the moon (translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein; Europa Editions) F A
- Boucher, Anthony - Rocket to the morgue (1942; Otto Penzler's Classic American Mystery Library reprint) F B
- Burns, Anna - Little constructions: a novel (2007 work by author of Milkman) F B
- Imperioli, Michael - The perfume burned his eyes (NYC, 1970s, coming-of-age story featuring Lou Reed) F I
- Joukhadar, Zeyn - The map of salt and stars (historical fiction, Syria) F J
- Kamali, Marjan - The stationery shop (historical fiction, 1953, Tehran) F K
- Pirandello, Luigi - Stories for the years (translated from the Italian; early 20th-century Modernism, published by Yale U. Press) F P
- Woolrich, Cornell - Waltz into darkness (new reissue of classic by a master of noir/mystery/general creepiness) F W
WRITING
- Haag, Pamela - Revise : the scholar-writer's essential guide to tweaking, editing, and perfecting your manuscript 808 H
- Myles, Eileen - For now (Yale Why I Write series) 808 M
- Rubin, Daniel Joshua - 27 essential principles of story: master the secrets of great storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park 808.3 R
ART
- Balken, Debra Bricker - Arthur Dove: a catalogue raisonné of paintings and things 759.1 D OVERSIZE
- Israëls, Machtelt - Piero della Francesca: and the invention of the artist 759.5 P
- Laing, Lloyd Robert - Art of the Celts 709.3 L
- Nanay, Bence - Aesthetics: a very short introduction 701 N
- Nochlin, Linda - Why have there been no great women artists? 704 N
- Schwitters, Kurt - Myself and my aims: writings on art and criticism 701 S
BIOGRAPHIES
- Broers, Michael - Napoleon: soldier of destiny (volume one) & Napoleon: the spirit of the age, 1805-1810 92 N216 B
- Haseltine, William A. - My lifelong fight against disease : from polio and AIDS to COVID-19 92 H3471 H
- Russell, Jan Jarboe - Eleanor in the Village : Eleanor Roosevelt's search for freedom and identity in New York's Greenwich Village 92 R7812 R
- Sweig, Julia - Lady Bird Johnson : hiding in plain sight 92 J667 S
- Verlinden, Willem-Jan - The Van Gogh sisters 920 G613 V
HISTORY
- Blum, Howard - Night of the assassins: the untold story of Hitler's plot to kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin 940.532 B
- Chomsky, Aviva - Central America's forgotten history: revolution, violence, and the roots of migration 972.8 C
- Favereau, Marie - The Horde: how the Mongols changed the world 950 F
- Fenwick, Simon - The Crichel boys: scenes from England's last literary salon 942.3 F
- Holloway, Jonathan Scott - The cause of freedom: a concise history of African Americans 973 H
- Holt, Thomas C. - The movement: the African American struggle for civil rights 323.1 H
- Masur, Kate - Until justice be done: America's first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction 323.1 M
- Puri, Samir - The shadows of empire: how imperial history shapes our world 909 P
- Rasmussen, Dennis C. - Fears of a setting sun: the disillusionment of America's founders 973.4 R
- Totman, Conrad D. - Early modern Japan 952 T
WOMEN'S STUDIES
- Chemaly, Soraya L. - Rage becomes her: the power of women's anger 157 C
- The concise history of woman suffrage: selections from History of woman suffrage (edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association) 324.3 H
- Wickenden, Dorothy - The agitators: three friends who fought for abolition and women's rights (Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, Francis Adeline Seward) 920 W634 A
- Thanks for typing : remembering forgotten women in history (Julia Dresvina) 305.4 T
- Check our Women's History Month list for many more recent arrivals
TRAVEL & DESCRIPTION
- Francis, Gavin - Island dreams: mapping an obsession 910 F
- Kamiya, Gary - Spirits of San Francisco: voyages through the unknown city 917.946 K
- Ricciardi, Mirella - African visions: the diary of an African photographer 916 R
SCIENCE & MATH
- Meiburg, Jonathan - A most remarkable creature : the hidden life and epic journey of the world's smartest birds of prey 598.2 M
- Stone, Deborah A. - Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters 001 S
- Villani, Cdric - Mathematics is the poetry of science 809.9 V
- Zimmer, Carl - Life's edge: the search for what it means to be alive 570 Z
- Strata: William Smith's geological maps (edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History; foreword by Robert Macfarlane) 551 S OVERSIZE
LAW
- Humes, Edward - No matter how loud I shout: a year in the life of juvenile court 364.3 H
- Mayeux, Sara - Free justice : a history of the public defender in twentieth-century America 343 M
- Natapoff, Alexandra - Punishment without crime: how our massive misdemeanor system traps the innocent and makes America more unequal 364.6 N
- Smyth, Frank - The NRA: the unauthorized history 363.3 S
RELIGION
- Delbanco, Andrew - William Ellery Channing : an essay on the liberal spirit in America 288 D
- Huntington, Eric - Creating the universe: depictions of the cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism 294 H
- Kass, Leon - Founding God's nation: reading Exodus 222 K