Hot News This Week
March 20, 2025
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| We’re saddened by the loss of legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard, who passed away this month at the age of 92. With plays like “Master Harold”...and the Boys and Blood Knot, Fugard “exposed the cruel psychological torment of apartheid to an international audience,” according to the New York Times obituary.
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| Read This Next: a Stylish Take on Hypochondria
“We are a society of hypochondriacs, a band of idiots roving through TikTok and Reddit and Apple Watch data,” according to the New York Times Book Review, and “this rabbit hole is explored in stylish detail by the English book editor and academic Will Rees.”
This week, Will Rees’s Hypochondria received a comprehensive review by editor Lauren Christensen. As a “compact treatise that spirals through memoir, history and theory,” she writes, “this slim book offers no shortage of drama,” and Rees is adept “in articulating the myopia that has plagued the human brain since its development.” Hypochondria is also among the Book Review’s top reading picks for March.
Hypochondria
by Will Rees
Coach House Books • March 2025 • 9781552454848
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“Tsunami is a more than essential essay collection! Lovingly translated into English for the first time, we have access to international women’s voices and perspectives.” — Audrey Kohler, BookWoman (Austin, TX)
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| | Immemorial
by Lauren Markham
Transit Books • February 2025 • 9798893389036
“This tiny tome packs a wallop. The author is searching for a word for the feeling of premourning—for the planet, for everything that is disappearing before our eyes.” — Sam Miller, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
“Nearly every page in this stunning book has been dog-eared and underlined . . . I am enamored.” — Hannah deBree, Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore (Berkeley, CA)
“You could highlight at least one line on every page—Markham is that consistently insightful, intelligent, and thought-provoking.” — Bryan Seitz, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
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★ “Celebrating the diversity of the human experience in language through well-illustrated examples, this title provides a plethora of opportunities for discussion. . . . [It] will be immensely useful for classroom SEL instruction.” — School Library Journal
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| | On Oil
by Don Gillmor
Biblioasis • April 2025 • 9781771966672
★ “Journalist and novelist Gillmor offers a stinging critique of the oil industry. . . . Gillmor’s damning language rings like that of an unheeded prophet. Punchy and powerful, this is a knockout.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “A wild ride through the underground lives of female wrestlers in early 1970s New York. . . . A much-needed reminder of the enduring, and transformative, power of the weird. Drexler rises from her corner, ready to fight again!” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “A compact return to the personal by one of today’s sharpest literary minds. . . . It packs plenty of Nelson’s signature power punches of brilliance and shrewd humor, driving the reader to look between carefully constructed lines that twitch with secrets and memories.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Out of the Blank
by Elaine Equi
Coffee House Press • February 2025 • 9781566897174
“Elaine Equi’s compositions are a door to a lavish commonplace. Her language, casual enough for a napkin, leaves you with the impression that you’ve just been told a delicious, unshackling secret.” — Artforum
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| | Girlatee
by A. M. Juster, illus. Grant Silverstein
Paul Dry Books • March 2025 • 9781589881990
“A sweetly traditional story. . . . The poet A.M. Juster has a bit of fun with the name of an aquatic animal children tend to adore in Girlatee, a small snug picture book illustrated by Grant Silverstein.” — Wall Street Journal
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“This brave cartoonist is a public hero. . . . The wonderfully humorous character of his drawings [is] perhaps unmatched in satirizing the rich since the German artists of the Weimar years.” — CounterPunch
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ABA, SCIBA, PNBA, SIBA, MPIBA, NAIBA, NCIBA, and Bookshop.org Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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