New Books - September 2018
NON-FICTION
- Alexiou, Alice Sparberg - Devil's mile: the rich, gritty history of the Bowery
- Arceneaux, Michael - I can't date Jesus: love, sex, family, race, and other reasons I've put my faith in Beyoncé
- Collins, Paul - Blood & ivy: the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
- Edgerton, David - The rise and fall of the British nation: a twentieth-century history
- Fox, Porter - Northland: a 4,000-mile journey along America's forgotten border
- Hitchings, Henry - The world in thirty-eight chapters, or, Dr Johnson's guide to life
- Holleeder, Astrid - Judas: how a sister's testimony brought down a criminal mastermind
- Jackson, Julian - De Gaulle
- Kildea, Paul Francis - Chopin's piano: in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Macy, Beth - Dopesick: dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America
- Mandel, Lee - Sterling Hayden's wars
- Moore, Darnell L. - No ashes in the fire: coming of age black & free in America
- Norwich, John Julius - France: a history: from Gaul to de Gaulle
- O'Brien, Keith - Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Petkanas, Christopher - Loulou & Yves: the untold story of Loulou de la Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent (ebook available)
- Posey, Parker - You're on an airplane: a self-mythologizing memoir
- Quammen, David - The tangled tree: a radical new history of life
- Raffel, Dawn - The strange case of Dr. Couney: how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies
- Roe, Sue - In Montparnasse: the emergence of surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
- Sattouf, Riad - The Arab of the future 3: a graphic memoir: a childhood in the Middle East (1985-1987) (translated from the French)
- Spicer, Sean - The briefing: politics, the press, and the president
- Stallworth, Ron - Black Klansman: race, hate, and the undercover investigation of a lifetime
- Stern, Scott W. - The trials of Nina McCall: sex, surveillance, and the decades-long government plan to imprison "promiscuous" women
- Warnecke, Grace Kennan - Daughter of the cold war
- Weisman, Steven R. - The chosen wars: how Judaism became an American religion
- Wohlleben, Peter, - The weather detective: rediscovering nature's secret signs (translated from the German)
- Wolf, Maryanne - Reader, come home: the reading brain in a digital world
FICTION
- Anwar, Arif - The storm: a novel
- Burgess, Douglas R. - Fogland Point
- Camilleri, Andrea - The Sacco Gang (translated from the Italian)
- Campbell, Michele - She was the quiet one
- Cannon, Joanna - Three things about Elsie: a novel
- Carpenter, Lea - Red, white, blue
- Davis, Fiona - The masterpiece: a novel
- De Bernières, Louis - So much life left over: a novel
- Enger, Thomas - Killed
- Evans, Lissa - Old baggage
- Greengrass, Jessie - Sight: a novel
- Greenwood, T. - Rust & stardust
- Herrndorf, Wolfgang, - Sand (translated from the German; New York Review Books Classics)
- Johnson, Daisy - Everything under
- Kim, Crystal Hana - If you leave me: a novel
- Knausgård, Karl Ove - Summer (translated from the Norwegian)
- Krueger, William Kent - Desolation mountain: a novel
- Kumar, Amitava - Immigrant, Montana
- Kutscher, Volker - Goldstein
- Lewis, Jeffrey G. - The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean nuclear attacks against the United States: a speculative novel
- Markley, Stephen - Ohio: a novel
- Markovits, Benjamin - A weekend in New York
- Martin, Andrew - Early work
- Mattison, Alice - Conscience: a novel
- Pheby, Alex - Playthings
- Reza, Yasmina - Babylon (translated from the French)
- Rojas Contreras, Ingrid - Fruit of the drunken tree: a novel
- Schumacher, Julie - The Shakespeare requirement
- Sin, Kyong-suk - The court dancer (translated from the Korean)
- Summerfield, Zulema Renee - Every other weekend: a novel
- Tokarczuk, Olga - Flights (translated from the Polish; ebook available)
- Trollope, Joanna - An unsuitable match
- Van den Berg, Laura - The third hotel
- Vickers, Salley - The librarian
- Walbert, Kate - His favorites
- Walters, Minette - The last hours
- Weber, Katharine - Still life with monkey
- Williams, Katie - Tell the machine goodnight
MYSTERIES
- Adler-Olsen, Jussi - The Washington decree (translated from the Danish)
- Arsenault, Emily - The last thing I told you
- Barclay, Linwood - A noise downstairs: a novel
- Berry, Flynn - A double life (ebook available)
- Bowen, Rhys - Four funerals and maybe a wedding*
- Brown, Sandra - Tailspin
- Candlish, Louise - Our house*
- Cotterill, Colin - Don't eat me
- Elkins, Aaron J. - A long time coming
- Feiffer, Jules - The ghost script: a graphic novel
- Fraser, Anthea - Sins of the fathers*
- Giambanco, V. M. - Sweet after death*
- Gordon, David - The bouncer (ebook available)
- Hart, Rob - Potter's field
- Keller, Julia - Bone on bone
- Lapeña, Shari - An unwanted guest
- Lorac, E. C. R. - Bats in the belfry: a London mystery*
- MacNeal, Susan Elia - The prisoner in the castle: a Maggie Hope mystery (ebook available)
- McCall Smith, Alexander - The quiet side of passion
- Muller, Marcia - The breakers
- Quinn, Anthony - Our friends in Berlin*
- Scottoline, Lisa - Feared: a Rosato & DiNunzio novel
- Slaughter, Karin - Pieces of her: a novel
- Solares, Martín - Don't send flowers (translated from the Spanish)
- Stage, Zoje - Baby teeth
- Steinhauer, Olen - The middleman (ebook available)
- Tremblay, Paul - The cabin at the end of the world: a novel
- Truhen, Aidan - The price you pay
- Vichi, Marco - Ghosts of the past (translated from the Italian)
- Wignall, Kevin - To die in Vienna
- Woods, Stuart - The money shot
* Indicates a British mystery
SHORT STORIES
- Lacey, Catherine - Certain American states
- Marcus, Ben - Notes from the fog
- Rich, Simon - Hits & misses
- Wilson, Kevin - Baby, you're gonna be mine
- Zoshchenko, Mikhail - Sentimental tales (translated from the Russian)
POETRY
- Limón, Ada - The carrying: poems
- Motion, Andrew - Essex clay
- Wong, Angela Veronica - Elsa: an unauthorized autobiography
IN THE STACKS
LITERATURE
- Cole, Henri - Orphic Paris (New York Review Books) 820.81 C
- Garner, Helen - True stories: the collected short non-fiction 824 G
- Griffiths, Eric - If not critical 809 G
- Kadare, Ismail - Essays on world literature: Aeschylus, Dante, Shakespeare 809.9 K
- King, Richard H. - A Southern Renaissance: the cultural awakening of the American South, 1930-1955 820.9 K
- Patten, Robert L. - Charles Dickens and his publishers 823 D
- Tonkin, Boyd - The 100 best novels in translation 028 T
FICTION
- Conroy, Jack - The disinherited: a novel of the 1930s F C
- Garner, Helen - Stories: the collected short fiction F G
- Jones, Cynan - The long dry F J
- March, William - The bad seed: a novel F M
- Maud, Constance Elizabeth - No surrender (Persephone reissue of this 1911 suffragette novel) F M
- Michaux, Henri - A certain plume (translated from the French by Richard Sieburth; preface by Lawrence Durrell; New York Review Books) F M
POETRY
- Bass, Ellen - Like a beggar 821 B
- Burgos, Julia de - Song of the simple truth: the complete poems (translated from the Spanish) 861 B
- Cummings, E. E. - E. E. Cummings: a miscellany 828 C
- Evans, Robert C. - Philip Larkin 821.09 L
- Raine, Kathleen - That wondrous pattern: essays on poetry and poets 809.1 R
JOURNALISM
- Herbers, John - Deep South dispatch: memoir of a civil rights journalist 323.1 H
- Morrison, Patt - Don't stop the presses!: truth, justice, and the American newspaper 071 M
BOOKS & READING
- Borsuk, Amaranth - The book 002 B
- McDade, Travis - Torn from their bindings: a story of art, science, and the pillaging of American university libraries 090 M
- Raven, James - What is the history of the book? 002 R
WRITING
- Next line, please: prompts to inspire poets and writers (David Lehman, Angela Ball, eds.) 808.1 N
- Friedman, Jane - The business of being a writer 070.5 F
- Jones, Chris Mackenzie - Behind the book: eleven authors on their path to publication 070.5 J
ART
- Bassani, Ezio. - African art 709 B
- Folsach, Kjeld von - The human figure in Islamic art: holy men, princes, and commoners , 743 F
- Golden kingdoms: luxury arts in the ancient Americas (Joanne Pillsbury, et al., eds.; Getty & Metropolitan Museum exhibitions) 980.1 G OVERSIZE
- Marino Marini: visual passions : encounters with masterworks of sculpture from the Etruscans to Henry Moore (Barbara Cinelli, et al., eds.) 730 M
- Naeem, Asma. - Black out: silhouettes then and now 741.1 N
- Radical women: Latin American art, 1960-1985 (Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Andrea Giunta, eds.; Brooklyn Museum) 709.8 R
- Rembrandt and the inspiration of India (Stephanie Schrader, ed.; Getty Museum) 709.54 R
ARCHITECTURE
- Gordon Matta-Clark: anarchitect (Antonio Sergio-Bessa, Jessamyn Fiore, eds.) 709.2 M
- Hunt, John Dixon - Site, sight, insight: essays on landscape architecture 710 H
- Jodidio, Philip - Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966 to today 720.92 P
- Treib, Marc - Landscapes of modern architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán 724 T
- Webb, Michael - Architects' houses 728 W
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Through a different lens: Stanley Kubrick photographs (Donald Albrecht, Sean Corcoran, eds.) 779 K OVERSIZE
- Hujar, Peter - Peter Hujar: speed of life 779 H
- Rayner, Joan - The photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor: artist and lover 779 R
PERFORMING ARTS
- Butler, Isaac - The world only spins forward: the ascent of Angels in America 822.09 B
- Rader, Peter - Playing to the gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the rivalry that changed acting forever 920 R1277 P
- Scenes from the city: filmmaking in New York, 1966-2006 (James Sanders, ed.; contributions by Martin Scorsese & Nora Ephron) 791.4 S
FASHION
- Antonelli, Paola - ITEMS: is fashion modern? 746.92 A
- Lynn, Eleri - Tudor fashion 391.0942 L OVERSIZE
- Newman, Terry - Legendary authors and the clothes they wore 391 N
PHILOSOPHY
- Eribon, Didier - Returning to Reims 194 E
- Haven, Cynthia L. - Evolution of desire: a life of René Girard 194 H
- Samuelson, Scott - Seven ways of looking at pointless suffering: what philosophy can tell us about the hardest mystery of all 100 S
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
- Atkins, William - The immeasurable world: journeys in desert places 910.9 A
- Brewster, Mary - She was a sister sailor: the whaling journals of Mary Brewster, 1845-1851 910.4 B OVERSIZE
- Frame, William - James Cook: the voyages 910.9 F OVERSIZE
- Thorpe, Adam - Notes from the Cévennes: half a lifetime in provincial France 828 T
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
- Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor - Reinventing capitalism in the age of big data 303.4 M
- Norman, Jesse. - Adam Smith: what he thought, and why it matters 330 N
- Tooze, J. Adam - Crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world (ebook available) 323 T
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Eichengreen, Barry J. - The populist temptation: economic grievance and political reaction in the modern era 320.9 E
- Mount, Ferdinand - Prime movers: from Pericles to Gandhi : twelve great political thinkers and what's wrong with each of them 320.1 M
CHINA
- The China questions: critical insights into a rising power (Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi, eds.) 951 C
- The China reader: the reform era (Orville Schell, David Shambaugh, eds.) 951 C
- Platt, Stephen R. - Imperial twilight: the opium war and the end of China's last golden age 951 P
BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
- Epstein, Helen - The long half-lives of love and trauma 92 E644 E
- Jukes, Helen - A honeybee heart has five openings: a year of keeping bees 638 J
- Kurshan, Ilana - If all the seas were ink: a memoir 92 K9691 K
- Lal, Ruby - Empress: the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan 92 N974 L
- MacNicol, Glynnis, - No one tells you this: a memoir 92 M1698 M
- Plant, Deborah G. - Alice Walker: a woman for our times 92 W1774 P
HISTORY
- Historians on Hamilton: how a blockbuster musical is restaging America's past (Renee Romanco, Claire Bond Potter, eds.) 782.14 H
- Andrews, George Reid - Afro-Latin America: Black lives, 1600-2000 305.8 A
- Baker, Deborah - The last Englishmen: love, war, and the end of empire 954 B
- Brock, Jared - The road to dawn: Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War 92 H5266 B
- Butman, John - New World, Inc.: the making of America by England's merchant adventurers 970 B
- Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon - Daughters of the Winter Queen: four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots 920 G6246 D
- Guelzo, Allen C. - Reconstruction: a concise history 973.8 G
- Pinsker, Shachar - A rich brew: how cafés created modern Jewish culture 305.8 P
- Thomas, Keith - In pursuit of civility: manners and civilization in early modern England 395 T
- Wallace, Max - In the name of humanity: the secret deal to end the Holocaust 940.5318 W
- Warren, James A. - God, war, and Providence: the epic struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England , 974.5 W
ANTIQUITY
- Bahrani, Zainab - Mesopotamia: ancient art and architecture 709.35 B
- Stuttard, David - Nemesis: Alcibiades and the fall of Athens 938 S
- Van de Mieroop, Marc - A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC 939 V
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.
CRIME
- Cummings, Mary - Saving sin city: William Travers Jerome, Stanford White, and the original crime of the century 364.1 C
- Enrich, David - The spider network: how a math genius and a gang of scheming bankers pulled off one of the greatest scams in history 364 E
- Kohler-Hausmann, Issa - Misdemeanorland: criminal courts and social control in an age of broken windows policing 364 K
- Sharkey, Patrick - Uneasy peace: the great crime decline, the renewal of city life, and the next war on violence 307.76 S
LAW
- Buckley, F. H. - The republic of virtue: how we tried to ban corruption, failed, and what we can do about it 364.13 B
- Charles, Patrick J. - Armed in America: a history of gun rights from colonial militias to concealed carry 344 C
NEW YORK
- Revolting New York: how 400 years of riot, rebellion, uprising, and revolution shaped a city (Neil Smith, et al., eds.) 974.71 R
- Blair, Sara - How the other half looks: the Lower East Side and the afterlives of images 974.71 B
- Bogart, Michele Helene, - Sculpture in Gotham: art and urban renewal in New York City 917.471 B
- Henckels, Kirk. - Life at the top: New York's most exceptional apartment buildings 728 H
WAR
- Vietnam and America: a documented history (Marvin Gettleman, et al., eds.) 959.704 V
- Chivers, C. J. - The fighters: Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq 956.704 C
- Faulkner, Richard Shawn - Pershing's Crusaders: the American soldier in World War I 940.48 F
SCIENCE & MATH
- Rhodes, Richard - Energy: a human history 333.8 R
- Stipp, David - A most elegant equation: Euler's formula and the beauty of mathematics 510.9 S
- Weinberg, Steven - Third thoughts 500 W
ENVIRONMENTALISM
- Hanna-Attisha, Mona - What the eyes don't see: a story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city (Flint, MI, water) 615.9 H
- Miller, Daegan - This radical land: a natural history of American dissent 304.2 M
- Turner, James Morton - The promise of wilderness: American environmental politics since 1964 333.7 T