Hot News This Week
July 18, 2024
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| Jon Fosse’s Septology, translated by Damion Searles (Transit Books), is one of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” according to the New York Times Book Review: “This Norwegian masterpiece, by the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the kind of soul-cleansing work that seems to silence the cacophony of the modern world—a pair of noise-cancelling headphones in book form.”
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| | What I Know About You
by Éric Chacour, trans. Pablo Strauss
Coach House Books • September 2024 • 9781552454855
“A novel of secrets kept and vows broken among the members of a worldly, Levantine Christian family in Cairo, clinging to tradition amid radical societal change from the 1960s to the 21st century. . . . The sense of intimacy Éric Chacour (and his translator, Pablo Strauss) have achieved with What I Know About You is astonishing.” — James Crossley, Leviathan Bookstore (St. Louis, MO)
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The Sapling Cage
by Margaret Killjoy
Feminist Press • September 2024 • 9781558613317
“FFO [for fans of]: Magical adventures! Anarcho-goth witches! The Earthsea novels! Queer bildungsroman! Studio Ghibli movies! Cute but fraught sapphic first love!” — David Christensen, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
“As the reader follows the journey of Lorel, a trans girl who swaps places with her childhood best friend to join a witch coven, they are introduced to a rich fantasy world full of antagonistic knights, vicious monsters, and sinister magical rituals.” — Catherine Pabalate, Epilogue Books (Chapel Hill, NC)
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| With Dynamite Nashville Revelations, Mayor Calls for New Look into Civil Rights-Era Bombings
In Dynamite Nashville, Phillips connects these cases—the bombings of Hattie Cotton Elementary School (1957), the Jewish Community Center (1958), and the home of Civil Rights attorney and city councilman Z. Alexander Looby (1960)—to an organized network of racist terrorists involved in at least twenty bombings between 1957 and 1963, including the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Her findings draw upon FBI files (some of which the FBI denied having), archival materials, and interviews with witnesses.
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| | A Muzzle for Witches
by Dubravka Ugresic, trans. Ellen Ellias-Bursac
Open Letter • September 2024 • 9781960385253
★ “Sage closing remarks from a vital public intellectual. . . . A celebrated writer and thinker answers smart questions about misogyny, nationalism, resistance, and the nature of art.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “This unusual and poignant volume is equal parts gothic and pastoral. . . . Cabot Black walks the tightrope between the gnomic and the visceral, and sticks the landing with the utmost skill and tenderness.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | The Translator
by Harriet Crawley
Bitter Lemon Press • April 2024 • 9781913394837
“Ms. Crawley, a former journalist, has lived and worked in Russia, and her novel is rich with up-to-the-moment detail. With The Translator, she has produced an espionage tale and a Romeo-and-Juliet romance zipped into one irresistible package.” — Wall Street Journal
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“Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996, two years after chronicling the disease in City of God, a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles. His belated follow-up takes the same form, with the same bracing urgency.” — New York Times Book Review
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