It’s another Tuesday in August, and I come bearing tidings of new things to come. Below, you’ll find no less than twenty-seven now books to consider in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with a remarkable range of material. There’s new poetry from Danez Smith, Kwame Dawes, and Kenzie Allen; a new, formally inventive (and thus an homage) biography of Audre Lorde; an offering of macabre musings from Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes, the creators of the podcast; a novel following the life of Black aviatrix Bessie Coleman; highly anticipated fiction from Gina María Balibrera, Gayl Jones, Priscilla Morris, Zoe Whittall, and many others; and more.
Summer is nearing its (official) end, but with good places to be and great things to read while at them, the summer can last a bit longer. Read on, and let those to-be-read piles gloriously grow. * “ is a work of fierce ambition and blazing emotion.
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Her invocation of the voices of a group of women whose lives were distorted and cut short by El Salvador’s violent dictator El Gran Pendejo left me breathless—and is one of the most powerful stories of motherhood, sisterhood, and survival I’ve ever read. A colossal achievement.” –Julie Buntin “A powerful, gripping portrayal from within the siege of Sarajevo.
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In , Priscilla Morris uses beautiful, tightly-calibrated prose and deep empathy to portray the disbelief, reckoning, resilience, and will to keep living of the besieg.