Hot News This Week
August 7, 2025
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| Read This Next: Beguiling Historical Fiction
Strong reviews continue to roll in for The Remembered Soldier (New Vessel Press), Anjet Daanje’s novel translated by David McKay. In a review for the New York Times Book Review, historical fiction columnist Alida Becker writes, “This provocatively labyrinthine novel dissects the consciousness of an amnesiac veteran of World War I who has spent four years in a Belgian asylum only to be retrieved by a woman who insists she is his wife.” The Book Review also highlighted it as an Editors’ Choice pick.
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| Three Graphic Novel Picks
The Children’s Book Council recently recommended three middle grade titles from Consortium publishers on a list of graphic novel selections:
- Pearl of the Sea by Anthony Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne, illus. Willem Samuel (Catalyst Press)
- The Rez Doctor by Gitz Crazyboy, illus. Veronika Barinova, Azby Whitecalf, and Toben Racicot (Portage & Main / HighWater Press)
- Little Moons by Jen Storm, illus. Ryan Howe (Portage & Main / HighWater Press)
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“Past is prologue in this haunting Irish meditation on family, history, and love. . . . This is a novel to savor and contemplate as the characters will linger long in your memory.” — Pamela Klinger-Horn, Valley Bookseller (Stillwater, MN)
“I adore Elaine Feeney’s writing, like Anne Enright with a dark twist, and her latest does not disappoint.” — Stefanie Kiper, Water Street Bookstore, Inc. (Exeter, NH)
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“So glad that the former Kentucky Poet Laureate has a poetry collection at last! . . . Poems about queerness, protest, timesickness and soup beans all exist side by side in this collection, as in life.” — Sam Miller, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
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“My favorite living poet of all living times.” — Bex Frankeberger, Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY)
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“A heartwarming memoir . . . Waldron and Oscar’s story will resonate with anyone who has valued the connection they have/have had with their four-legged friends.” — McKenna Moran-Jones, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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| | All That Dies in April
by Mariana Travacio, trans. Samantha Schnee and Will Morningstar
World Editions • September 2025 • 9781642861570
“[Has] a cinematic gusto. . . . Oh, and how I do love a tale that bears no traces of time periods, free of cell phones, automobiles and the like, but cozily ubiquitous nonetheless.” — Ian McCord, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)
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| | Maria La Divina
by Jerome Charyn
Bellevue Literary Press • September 2025 • 9781954276482
★ “A bravura performance that hits all the right notes and is sure to delight opera devotees and fans of strong women characters. . . . Charyn here reimagines the life of a complex and talented woman, this time the diva of divas, Maria Callas.” — Library Journal
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★ “A rare sequel that not only surpasses its original but creates a unique LGBTQIA+ standalone story. . . . Young teens who are exploring their identities or feeling anxious about high school will find this a relatable tale, and the sweet chasteness of the budding relationship is appropriate for middle school collections.” — School Library Journal
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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“The Weirdumentary era really got going in 1968, on the heels of so much that was being discussed in America: UFO sightings, New Age religions, anti-materialism . . .” Gary D. Rhodes, author of Weirdumentary (Feral House), was interviewed last week by Film International.
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ABA, MPIBA, SCIBA, PNBA, SIBA, MIBA, and NEIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
🌙 Collector's Edition 🌙
coming in hardback this September, with a new intro by Carmen Maria Machado
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Little World
by Josephine Rowe
Transit Books • August 2025 • 9798893380163
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