Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen BOA Editions • October 2023 • 9781960145000
“Woof! Every year I find a hidden gem of poetry to champion, and Desire Museum is my winner for 2023. . . . Going from queer longing and desire to the climate crisis and how that manifests into anxiety in our bodies, I loved and honestly cherished every poem in this collection.” — Grace Sullivan, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
Yara by Tamara Faith Berger Coach House Books • October 2023 • 9781552454671
“Tamara Faith Berger is utterly unflinching, both in depicting human sexuality and posing difficult ethical quandaries. This is the kind of book that really highlights how avoidant so many novels are when it comes to exploring these fundamental pleasures and problems.” — Keith Mosman, Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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Read This Next: The Last Yakuza by Jake Adelstein
Rolling Stone ran an excerpt of Jake Adelstein’s The Last Yakuza on October 17, a piece about what happens when a member of a Japanese organized crime family violates its code of honor. Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice, describes his new book as “a kind of post-war history of the yakuza,” centered in part around the life of his former driver and bodyguard. Publishers Weekly says The Last Yakuza is “painstakingly reported and paced like a thriller,” and “a must-read for anyone interested in organized crime.”
★ “The animated evolution of a queer boy from his strict religious upbringing to a liberated adolescence. . . . A vital, emotionally immersive self-portrait.” — Kirkus Reviews
On the Isle of Antioch by Amin Maalouf, trans. Natasha Lehrer World Editions • December 2023 • 9781642861341
★ “Lebanese-born French author Maalouf delivers an elegant portrait of a dying world. A beguiling, lyrical work of speculative fiction by a writer of international importance.” — Kirkus Reviews
The Shining by Dorothea Lasky Wave Books • October 2023 • 9781950268856
“Lasky’s ability to inhabit the different perspectives of the [King] novel and [Kubrick] film is a defining characteristic of the collection.” — Columbia Spectator
