Hot News This Week
September 8, 2022
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For the September 22 issue of the New York Review of Books, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor wrote a major review of Angela Davis: An Autobiography (Haymarket Books), hailing it as “a landmark text of left-wing Black politics.” Read the piece for more on why Davis’s seminal work “remains an important document for understanding the scope of political radicalization in the 1960s as well as its extended lineage.”
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| | Never Did the Fire
by Diamela Eltit, trans. Daniel Hahn
Charco Press • April 2022 • 9781913867218
“A cross between Heart of Darkness and I Hotel, Never Did the Fire is a brilliant exploration of the bitterness and frustration that can follow from tragedy and failure.”—Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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Fantasy, Unions, and Language in the Wall Street Journal
Several Consortium titles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal recently. Wolfstongue, Sam Thompson’s “sober, stirring fantasy for 8- to 12-year-olds,” illustrated by Anna Tromop, was reviewed by children's book critic Meghan Cox Gurdon on September 2. On August 26, Querelle of Roberval by Kevin Lambert, translated by Donald Winkler, was reviewed by critic Sam Sacks, who says the “attractively written novel explores both meanings of the word ‘union.’” Finally, also reviewed last month was Strange to Say by Deborah Warren, which is “a tour of English that savors the language’s mutability.”
Wolfstongue
by Sam Thompson, illus. Anna Tromop
Little Island Books • August 2022 • 9781915071002
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Fall Books: Franzen-y Swagger, Political Noir, and a Cast of Gossips and Cranks
We’re thrilled to see three Consortium titles featured in major fall books coverage. The Los Angeles Times included The Logos by Mark de Silva in their fall books preview, commending the novel’s “Wolfe-ian scope and Franzen-y swagger.” Alisa Ganieva’s political noir novel Offended Sensibilities, translated by Carol Apollonio, is among Vulture’s most-anticipated books for fall. Lastly, the Washington Post selected Funeral Train by Laurie Loewenstein as one of fall’s best new thrillers, and the mystery novel is praised for its “vivid cast of gossips and cranks, loners and busy bodies.”
The Logos
by Mark de Silva
CLASH Books • September 2022 • 9781955904223
Offended Sensibilities
by Alisa Ganieva, trans. Carol Apollonio
Deep Vellum Publishing • November 2022 • 9781646052233
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| | Participation
by Anna Moschovakis
Coffee House Press • November 2022 • 9781566896573
★ “Structurally surprising and impeccably executed . . . A brilliant and prescient story of an intellectual woman’s engagement with two book clubs amid climate catastrophe and political strife.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “A critical text on the intersections of film, queer studies, and pop culture that will appeal to both academic and public-library audiences.”—Booklist
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★ “A complete package that will delight and surprise genre fans. . . . Anthologies don’t get much better than this masterful assembly of 23 horror shorts.”—Publishers Weekly
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| | Book of Questions
by Pablo Neruda, illus. Paloma Valdivia, trans. Sara Lissa Paulson
Enchanted Lion Books • April 2022 • 9781592703227
“Seventy [questions] come ablaze amid the vibrant illustrations and fold-out delights, radiant with the colors and textures of Latin American tapestry.”—Maria Popova, The Marginalian
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“This novel, [Robert Grant’s] first, makes the case that philosophy isn’t an esoteric pursuit but a necessary part of life, especially in an era obsessed with metrics and outcomes.”—New York Times Book Review
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“[Walsh] writes fearlessly about aging as a woman in general . . . in particular she articulates the sickening feeling of only ever appreciating one’s body in the rearview mirror with such terrible precision that it stunned me.”—New Republic
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New Digital Review Copies
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“Rewarding and entertaining . . . May-lee Chai's abundant gifts as a writer are on full display in this collection.”—Charles Yu
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Titles from Black Ocean, Feminist Press, and Open Letter have been shortlisted for the 2022 ALTA Book Awards.
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