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Among the literary delights for you to explore this week are new works from John Banville, Cormac McCarthy and Siddhartha Mukherjee. See 10 below and all 16 in our Publishing this Week section.
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This Week's New and Notable Books
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There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New†section.
More about how we pick and rate books.
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Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth
On sale Oct 25 from Verso Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament. Read More | |
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
Debut Author On sale Oct 25 from Berkley Books Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul. Read More | |
The Singularities: A Novel by John Banville
On sale Oct 25 from Knopf Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison. Read More | |
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
On sale Oct 25 from Algonquin Books Genre: Essays. 256 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights. Read More | |
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
On sale Oct 25 from Knopf Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. Read More | |
Strike the Zither: Kingdom of Three #1 by Joan He
On sale Oct 25 from Roaring Brook Press Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 368 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms. Read More | |
Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern by Neil Baldwin
On sale Oct 25 from Knopf Genre: Biography. 576 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A major biography - the first in three decades - of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling the art form into the modern age, and whose profound and pioneering influence is still being felt today. Read More | |
The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar
On sale Oct 25 from Catapult Genre: Memoir. 336 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity. Read More | |
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire by Joseph Sassoon
On sale Oct 25 from Pantheon Books Genre: History. 432 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade - cotton, opium, shipping, banking - that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives. Read More | |
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
On sale Oct 25 from Scribner Genre: Science. 496 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human. Read More | |
John Shors Travel: Literary Tours
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Bestselling author John Shors is offering a series of exceptional tours in 2023 (more about John's books and his tours in our blog).
He personally leads all tours, which in 2023 will include:
Cambodia
– January 2023. John will co-lead a literary tour to Cambodia, alongside Loung Ung, the author of
First They Killed My Father.
This tour will dive deeply into the origins of Loung’s book; as well as
Temple of a Thousand Faces
, John’s novel about Angkor Wat.
Cambodia – February 2023. For this tour John has hired a yoga master to accompany the group, and there will be daily yoga and meditation classes at special sites.
Bhutan – April 2023. This tour will feature an extraordinary itinerary emphasizing the past and present wonders of this legendary Himalayan country.
Japan – May 2023. John lived for several years in Japan and has created a one-of-a-kind itinerary that will give participants an exciting and rich cultural experience.
Uzbekistan – September 2023. Participants will enjoy a wonderful journey along The Silk Road; staying in fabled cities, experiencing the best sights of a beautiful country.
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