Hot News This Week
September 29, 2022
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| | On Browsing
by Jason Guriel
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965101
“Memories flooded back of visits to favorite shops in distant cities . . . Unparalleled joy!! On Browsing also speaks to the satisfaction of enjoying these media the old-fashioned way: a book in hand, and music or a movie selected from your own curated library.”—Kay Wosewick, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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Celebrating a 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr (Coach House Books) has been shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize! Recognizing the best works in Canadian fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $100,000 to the winner and $10,000 to each of the finalists. We’ll be cheering for Mayr when the winner is crowned on November 7. The Sleeping Car Porter—a “dazzling” novel according to Publishers Weekly’s starred review—is out now from Coach House Books and tells the story of a queer Black sleeping car porter contending with the perils of white passengers, a clandestine love affair, and the hallucinatory effects of sleep deprivation.
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Bill McKibben on Border and Rule
For the October 6 issue of the New York Review of Books, Bill McKibben reviewed three books about human and wildlife migration spurred by the climate crisis, including Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia. “The global scope and historical perspective of Border and Rule, by the Canadian activist Harsha Walia, reminds me of the impact of the 1619 Project,” writes McKibben. “It forces the reader to grapple with the relentless and ongoing use and abuse of power by rich countries and their political and economic leaders.” Read the piece for more on Walia’s “remarkable account.”
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| | Offended Sensibilities
by Alisa Ganieva, trans. Carol Apollonio
Deep Vellum Publishing • November 2022 • 9781646052233
★ “No one is innocent or spared in Ganieva’s splendid and gripping tale of Russian corruption and control. . . . This is impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly
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| | Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
★ “A monumental antinovel of metaphysical longing and fabulist constructions . . . This scabrous epic thrums with monstrous life.”—Publishers Weekly
★ “A beguiling novel that plunges deep into subterranean conspiracy theories while questioning the nature of reality . . . A masterwork of Kafkaesque strangeness, brilliantly conceived and written.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“Skewers the carceral state’s unwavering belief in its own effectiveness. . . . [Diaries of a Terrorist] hums on the colloquial register, by turns campy, raw, and direct, inviting the reader to sit with the poet.”—The Nation
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“In this moment, when plague reality continues to underscore how under-cared-for we all are, reading After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America has been a balm. . . . After Life can help us process the pain of the last two and a half years of death and isolation.”—New Republic
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New Digital Review Copies
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“Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency is dolorous, riotous, rapturous. . . . With humor, deep intelligence, and what feels to me like a luminous everyday philosophy.”—Tracy K. Smith
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