Hot News This Week
May 16, 2024
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| Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Next Generation Leaders, honored for emerging as “an evocative chronicler of the ongoing war—from his experience living under Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza to his family’s efforts to flee to the safety of neighboring Egypt.”
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| | To & Fro
by Leah Hager Cohen
Bellevue Literary Press • May 2024 • 9781954276253
“What a magical, wondrous book! These mirrored coming of age stories, told as parable and contemporary, will hold you riveted no matter which you start with first.” — Alana Haley, Schuler Books (Grand Rapids, MI)
“It’s as if Eloise and Alice walked hand-in-hand through the looking glass and I was able to follow them.” — James Crossley, Leviathan Bookstore (St. Louis, MO)
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“Great little tale about an even littler fella trying his damnedest in the Sisyphean task of delivering a package in a house party that never stops.” — Richard Dixon, Politics and Prose Bookstore (Washington, DC)
“The best graphic novel I’ve read this year.” — Wulfe Wulfemeyer, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
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| Read This Next: an “Affecting and Inventive” New Novel by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
American Abductions
by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive Press • May 2024 • 9781628975185
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| Two Summer Reading Picks from The Atlantic
Two backlist titles from Consortium publishers are highlighted in a summer reading guide from The Atlantic.
Recommended for readers who want to “feel wonder about the universe” is Rita Indiana’s novel Tentacle, translated by Achy Obejas: “Holding voltaic awe in one hand and profound grief in the other, Indiana helps us see how the years behind us have led to our present climate crisis, and ignites a desire to fight for all we can still save.”
And for those looking to “indulge in a breezy beach read,” there’s Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party, translated by Daniel Levin Becker. The novel’s action “explodes in slow motion—gripping enough to make you forget about the sand in your teeth and the seagull circling your sandwich,”writes Atlantic staffer Faith Hill. “That’s my kind of beach read.”
Tentacle
by Rita Indiana, trans. Achy Obejas
And Other Stories • January 2019 • 9781911508342
The Birthday Party
by Laurent Mauvignier, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Transit Books • February 2023 • 9781945492655
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★ “Illuminating the poorly veiled racism and violence of past and present with masterful storytelling and exquisite resolve, this is a wonder.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “At once painfully intimate and staunchly unsentimental, Out of the Sierra welcomes readers into the Rarámuri world and invites us to count the human costs of climate change, capitalism, and anti-Indigenous prejudice.” — Booklist
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| New Digital Review Copies
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The Innocents
by Bridget Walsh
Gallic Books • March 2024 • 9781913547523
“Walsh’s thrillers are a bloody (literally) joy to read. . . . The writing is clean, well sequenced, and expertly paced, with fascinating, convincing characters.” — Tim McCarthy, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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Finalists for the CLMP’s 2024 Firecracker Awards include titles published by Coffee House Press, Biblioasis, Feminist Press, Haymarket Books, and Nightboat Books.
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