The Year of the WindKarina Pacheco Medrano, trans. from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem. Graywolf, $17 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-64445-365-0
Pacheco Medrano dazzles in her English-language debut, the surreal story of a 50-something Peruvian writer reckoning with her cousin’s disappearance during the government’s conflict with a Maoist insurgency in the 1980s. Soon after moving to Madrid in January 2020, Nina is shocked to encounter a wom... Continue reading »
The Red Scare MurdersCon Lehane. Soho Crime, $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-64129-720-2
Lehane (Murder at the College Library) delivers a gratifying old-school PI novel set in the thick of the McCarthy era. WWII veteran Mick Mulligan had it all—a successful career as a Hollywood cartoonist, a comfortable salary, a lovely family—until he was blacklisted by the House Un-American... Continue reading »
The Night Is Not for YouEman Quotah. Run for It, $18.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-59581-0
This wonderfully chilling and entirely immersive feminist horror story from Quotah (Bride of the Sea) opens with seven-year-old Layla, who dreams of owning a donkey. Readers follow Layla as she grows up and her innocence is shattered by a string of murders that upend her small town over and... Continue reading »
Lady LikeMackenzie Lee. Dial, $18 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-73060-7
Marriage comes with extremely high stakes for the sapphic heroines of this riotously entertaining Regency, the adult debut from bestselling YA author Lee (A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue). For Emily Sergeant, whose reputation has been tarnished by scandal in her small hometown, findi... Continue reading »
CannonLee Lai. Drawn & Quarterly, $29.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-7704-6802-3
This subtle yet searing graphic novel from Eisner and Lambda award winner Lai (Stone Fruit) takes its title from the nickname ironically bestowed on the main character, Lucy, by her best friend, Trish. In fact, Lucy is anything but a “loose cannon”; quiet, cagey, and hyper-responsible, she ... Continue reading »
The Intentions of ThunderPatricia Smith. Simon & Schuster, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-1-66805-572-4
Smith (Unshuttered) delivers a formidable volume of selected and previously uncollected poems. Performing the work of “desperate remembering,” Smith revels in Black joy even as she records the violence committed against Black bodies in the name of white supremacy: “We are the disappeared, d... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
Capitalism: A Global HistorySven Beckert. Penguin Press, $49 (1344p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2083-6
In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a fundamental break in human history,” he writes, one that “turned human relations upside down” and “made revolution a pe... Continue reading »
Sally’s Baking 101: Foolproof Recipes from Easy to AdvancedSally McKenney. Clarkson Potter, $32.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-58196-4
Sally’s Baking Addiction blogger McKenney debuts with a mouthwatering compendium of new and “fan favorite” recipes. A thorough introduction covers ingredients, tools, and handy tips, including the best methods for melting chocolate and measuring dry ingredients. Cookies range from the class... Continue reading »
Beard: A Memoir of a MarriageKelly Foster Lundquist. Eerdmans, $28.99 (250p) ISBN 978-0-80288-473-2
Lundquist, an English professor at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota, debuts with a wrenching account of the breakup of her marriage to a gay man. Lundquist met her future husband in the late 1990s at a Christian camp, where the two bonded over their love of TV soaps and off-kilter humor... Continue reading »
XoloDonna Barba Higuera, illus. by Mariana Ruiz Johnson. Levine Querido, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-6461-4702-1
Newbery Medalist Higuera recasts the Aztec myth of creation, situating Xolotl, the dog-headed god of lighting, death, and misfortune, as a celebrated hero. After Earth “stopped spinning. All life perished, including humans,” and the immortal gods must throw themselves into a volcano to make the plan... Continue reading »
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