Hot News This Week
October 10, 2024
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| “The book is a conversation. . . . We come at this text [the Torah] very differently: we are two very different Jews who come from very different backgrounds and perspectives.”
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| The Propagandist in the New York Times
“The book takes an insider’s perspective on occupied France’s collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II,” writes Tobias Grey in the piece. “And it was inspired by Desprairies’s mother, who was herself a propagandist for the Vichy regime and its Nazi leaders.” Despite her family’s lack of support, Desprairies decided to share their story because “the collaboration in France is so utterly unbelievable that I thought it was absolutely indispensable to base my novel on historical fact.” As Lehrer tells the NYT, “The fact that so few books of this kind have been written tells you how sensitive this subject remains in France even so long after the war.”
The Propagandist
by Cécile Desprairies, trans. Natasha Lehrer
New Vessel Press • October 2024 • 9781954404267
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“Get out your red string for an incredibly complicated, connected, and delightful tale of the greatest band you’ve never heard of. From The Who to The Stones to the Small Faces, and all points between, this Pete Townshend assembled not-so-super group hit the highest highs and some pretty low lows and this fantastic, immersive history with in-depth interviews and stories from all involved will blow the minds of even the most seasoned of classic rock heads.” — Seth Tucker, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
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“Chock-full of old wives’ tales, myth, and folklore. If you’ve ever wondered how the strange stories, properties and rituals, we attribute to certain foods came about, wonder no more, a huge amount can be found among these pages. Such a fun read!” — Becky Doherty, Northshire Bookstore (Manchester Center, VT)
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| | On Palestine
by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, ed. Frank Barat
Haymarket Books • April 2015 • 9781608464708
“This book is a perfect expansion of Gaza in Crisis, Chomsky’s and Pappé’s first collaboration. . . . Chomsky’s extensive experience in linguistics and global conflicts complements Pappé’s experience as a historian.” — Emily Martinez, Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe, AZ)
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| | A Sleepless Night
by Micaela Chirif, illus. Joaquín Camp
Transit Children’s Editions • October 2024 • 9798893389050
★ “The rich, humorous text is full of similes, and the illustrations appear to be rendered with markers, offering a layered and textured style. Blue nighttime hues contrast with brighter colors, centering action while exaggerated forms deepen the fantastical elements. Dazzling and dreamy.” — Horn Book Magazine
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| | Comrade Papa
by Gauz', trans. Frank Wynne
Biblioasis • October 2024 • 9781771966450
“An overall gleaming mosaic . . . [with] a patchwork of legends, folk tales, revolutionary diatribes and expeditionary reports that come together to make a whimsical, satirical whirlwind of a historical narrative.” — New York Times Book Review
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“Like the many examples it covers, Allen’s history of the notebook both instructs and entertains. . . . His prose, moreover, reveals a wryly witty personality.” — Washington Post
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| | Lesser Ruins
by Mark Haber
Coffee House Press • October 2024 • 9781566897198
“Tragic and exquisite . . . Lesser Ruins mounts decisive proof that Haber is one of the most rigorous and serious—and anachronistic—novelists working today.” — Washington Post
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“Fifty-seven Fridays is a story of family, love, and the power of community, as well as a devastating yet hopeful meditation on loss. It will stay with readers long after they reach the final page.” — Jewish Book Council
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“It is refreshing to see this tale told without that whiff of landed aristocratic elitism in which the dirt beneath the nails is the same dirt tilled by generations of one’s own. . . . Mr. Kavros becomes a clear-eyed, relaxed observer.” — Wall Street Journal
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Éric Chacour’s What I Know About You, translated by Pablo Strauss (Coach House Books), is a finalist for the 2024 Giller Prize.
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Big Sky by Adam Ferguson (Global Book Sales / GOST Books) was featured by CNN on September 28.
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ABA Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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“Two of the most effective solidarity workers in American politics offer a tough-love, how-to-get-it-done gift to those ready to confront oppressive power while building deep relationships with our political partners.” — Sarah Schulman
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