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Nov 14, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Edited by Chris Balakrishnan and Matt Wasowski, illus. by Kristen Orr. St. Martin’s, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-28834-9In this rollicking collection, Balakrishnan and Wasowski—founders of the Nerd Nite series, in which experts present short, accessible science talks—bring together brief essays by scholars and others on such topics as “sex change and gender roles in anemonefishes,” microbes’ role in creating human body odor, and the feasibility of sci-fi artificial gravity systems.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Barbra Streisand. Viking, $47 (962p) ISBN 978-0-5254-2952-4Streisand’s long-anticipated debut memoir doesn’t disappoint. Utilizing her own journals, her mother’s scrapbooks, and interviews with colleagues and friends, the decorated singer and actor delivers a thoroughly enjoyable survey of her life and career that—even at nearly 1,000 pages—never overstays its welcome.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Bestseller Blehm (Fearless) charts in this comprehensive biography how snowboarding pioneer Craig Kelly (1966–2003) became the sport’s “first true professional.” Kelly grew up “a latchkey kid of divorced parents from small-town Mount Vernon, Washington,” and began snowboarding in the early 1980s.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Tim and Emma Flannery. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6258-8Paleontologist Tim Flannery (The Eternal Frontier) teams up with his scientist daughter Emma (Weirdest Creatures in Time) for this intermittently stimulating examination of the megalodon, an extinct shark species that lived from 20 to five million years ago.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Kyle Edward Williams. Norton, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-86723-7Williams, senior editor of the Hedgehog Review, debuts with a sharp study of the struggle to hold corporations accountable in the 20th century.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Noah Charney |Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph
The Thefts of the ‘Mona Lisa’: The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous ArtworkHistorian Charney (Brushed Aside) tracks the eventful life of the Mona Lisa in this rollicking account. Florentine nobleman Francesco del Giocondo commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his wife Lisa in 1503. When the artist died in 1519 France, the still-unfinished painting passed into the hands of his assistant Salai, who sold it to French king François I.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Éric Chevillard, trans. from the French by Daniel Levin Becker. Yale Univ, $16 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-0-300-25411-2French novelist Chevillard (The Valiant Little Tailor) delivers a spellbinding essay collection that is as funny as it is unclassifiable. The brief pieces offer winking, curmudgeonly commentary on such mundane topics as the sky (“Nothing good comes from the sky; not hail, that little buckshot of iceberg...
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Benjamin D. Weber. New Press, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-620-97590-9Historian Weber connects the histories of mass incarceration and American imperialism in his wide-ranging and innovative debut.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph |Nell Greenfieldboyce
Hilke Schellmann. Hachette, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-306-82734-1Schellmann, a journalism professor at New York University, debuts with a disquieting survey of the failures of artificial intelligence used in corporate personnel decisions. Pushing back against claims that AI reduces bias in hiring, she notes that AI software’s “one-size-fits-all” approach often marginalizes people with disabilities.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jennifer Armstrong |Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh |Matthew J. Davenport |Laurence Ralph
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Dey Street, $29.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-327616-1“Get in, loser. We’re going back to 2004,” writes entertainment journalist Armstrong (When Women Invented Television) in this fun look at the making and legacy of the high school comedy Mean Girls.
