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Mar 2, 2024 | 
adn.com | Nancy Lord |Tommy Orange |Alfred A. Knopf
“Wandering Stars”By Tommy Orange; Alfred A. Knopf, 2024; 336 pages; $29. Tommy Orange’s first novel, “There There,” was both critically acclaimed and a best seller when it appeared in 2018. That story of urban Native Americans tracked 12 characters to the Big Oakland Powwow, along the way encompassing a family and community history of loss and renewal and ending in violence. Second novels rarely match those that burst forth so radiantly, but “Wandering Stars” accomplishes exactly that.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | KB Brookins |Alfred A. Knopf |Jo Lou
Cover Reveals The author and the artist talk about creating a design that embodies a Black trans writer's beautifully chaotic search for peace Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the memoir Pretty by KB Brookins, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on May 28, 2024. Preorder the book here. By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and...
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
pbk.org | Gregg Hecimovich |Jeremy Eichler |Alfred A. Knopf |Emily Monosson
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative
By Gregg Hecimovich, Ecco
"In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
auburnpub.com | Alfred A. Knopf
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
auburnpub.com | Alfred A. Knopf
FICTION: The latest from Jo Nesbø is a change of pace, for better and mostly worse. "The Night House" by Jo Nesbo; Alfred A. Knopf (256 pages, $28) ——— A black receiver threatens to overpower the cover of Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø's "The Night House," a splash of blood oozing from the phone. A dark and brooding house looms in the background, a mysterious, shadowy figure in the topmost window. ...
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
news.nestia.com | Ayana Mathis |Alfred A. Knopf
THE UNSETTLED, by Ayana MathisAs a novelist and a student of history, I’m interested in the question of whether Black novelists must acknowledge history in our work, or if it is possible, in the name of artistic freedom, to truly set it aside. I, for one, submit that Black history will always hover over American literature, whether or not the author intends it to.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Ayana Mathis |Alfred A. Knopf
Her second novel, "The Unsettled," follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE UNSETTLED, by Ayana MathisAs a novelist and a student of history, I'm interested in the question of whether Black novelists must acknowledge history in our work, or if it is possible, in the name of artistic freedom, to truly set it aside.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Jayne Phillips |Alfred A. Knopf
NIGHT WATCH, by Jayne Anne PhillipsJayne Anne Phillips's new novel, "Night Watch," about a woman and her daughter in a genteel asylum in West Virginia around the time of the Civil War, is sludgy, claustrophobic and pretentious. Each succeeding paragraph took something out of me. It hurts to say this because my feelings about her work are, more so than usual, personal.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Jonathan Raban |Alfred A. Knopf
Jonathan Raban's "Father and Son" is a memoir of illness and recovery paired with a parental history. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. FATHER AND SON: A Memoir, by Jonathan RabanThe problem with being a book critic, Dorothy Parker wrote, is that the work gets in the way of your reading. Jonathan Raban's posthumous memoir, "Father and Son," is a book I would have tracked down even if this weren't my job.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Lawrence Wright |Alfred A. Knopf
A rancher turned hero finds himself elected to the Statehouse in the novel "Mr. Texas."When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. MR. TEXAS, by Lawrence Wright"Built for giants, inhabited by pygmies." That's what the legendary Texas politician Bob Eckhardt used to tell awe-struck visitors about the Texas Capitol.
