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Jul 25, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Brown |Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Yuval Noah Harari. Random House, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-593-73422-3Bestseller Harari (Homo Deus) offers an ambitious but muddled meditation on the past and future of information technology. Positing all human history as a history of information—and defining information as “something that creates new realities”—Harari ends up telling a cautionary tale about the power of stories.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson |DAVID BROWN
Russell Cobb. Beacon, $31.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0737-2This riveting legal thriller from historian Cobb (The Great Oklahoma Swindle) opens up a “Pandora’s box containing vital questions about land ownership... and oil wealth” in modern-day Oklahoma.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson |DAVID BROWN
Jenny Slate. Little, Brown, $29 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-26393-1The quirky humor of comedian Slate (Little Weirds) lights up these odd yet endearing essays, which trace her path to becoming a mother in the years after divorcing her first husband. Reflecting on the early days of dating her second husband, she recounts worrying whenever they were apart that he would lose interest in her, a feeling she gradually overcame through the strength of their connection.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson |DAVID BROWN
Sean “Big Sean” Anderson. Simon Element, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-6680-4573-2Anderson draws on his tenacious rise to rap fame in this openhearted debut guide to personal growth. During a period of depression after college, the author embarked on what became a lifelong journey of “self-reflection” to become his “best self.” Boiling down what he’s learned, he outlines five general principles—accept, strategize, try, trust, and manifest—through stories from his career.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Brown |Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Rebecca Nagle. Harper, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-311204-9Journalist Nagle reports in her brilliant, kaleidoscopic debut on the legal battles leading up to Sharp v. Murphy, the startling 2020 Supreme Court decision that upheld the terms of a 19th-century treaty granting the Muscogee Nation land for resettlement in Oklahoma.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jonathan Lethem |David Brown |Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
Jonathan Lethem. ZE, $40 (416p) ISBN 979-8-9886700-0-1Novelist Lethem (Brooklyn Crime Novel)shares an entrancing collection of stories and essays celebrating visual art.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson |DAVID BROWN
Clara Bingham. Atria, $32.50 (592p) ISBN 978-1-9821-4421-0Journalist Bingham follows up Witness to the Revolution, an oral history of the end of the 1960s, with an equally stunning oral history of the era’s women’s rights movement. Bingham compiles recollections—some archival, but many gleaned through original interviews—of more than a hundred women who played a part in the radical change brought about between 1963 and 1973 (“In 1963, [an] American woman could not...
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Edwidge Danticat |Curtis Boyd |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
Novelist and essayist Danticat (Everything Inside) delivers a collection of piercing reflections on her native Haiti. In “A Rainbow in the Sky,” Danticat describes the steep toll that increasingly severe hurricanes are taking on the country (after Hurricane Matthew hit in 2006, “there were reports of people having no food, water, or shelter and living in caves while eating potentially toxic plants”) and laments the reluctance of wealthy nations to accept climate refugees.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Curtis Boyd |Ayana Elizabeth Johnson |Glenna Halvorson-Boyd
Marty Makary. Bloomsbury, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63973-531-0The medical establishment suffers from a reluctance to reexamine its own beliefs in light of new evidence, according to this impassioned cri de coeur. Makary (The Price We Pay), a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, discusses how a 2002 study on hormone replacement therapy reported that the treatment causes breast cancer, even though its data didn’t support that conclusion.
