Quinn Slobodian

2 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Deborah Baker |Quinn Slobodian |Robin Givhan |Jeremy Lin

Madeline Potter. Harper, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-333766-4English literature PhD Potter debuts with an elegant and impressive history of the Roma people. She traces how governments have sought to eject, eradicate, and assimilate the Roma from Tudor England to Nazi Germany to the “new wave of fierce prejudice and discrimination” that followed the fall of the Iron Curtain, when many Roma migrated westward.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Starre Vartan |Deborah Baker |Quinn Slobodian |Robin Givhan

The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body“Female bodies are far stronger and more capable than most of us have been taught,” according to this myth-busting report. Science writer Vartan (The Eco-Chick Guide to Life) argues that understanding strength as moving “the heaviest weight one can manage in a single effort” valorizes activities at which men excel while downplaying the endurance feats in which women often outperform men.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Quinn Slobodian |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss

Quinn Slobodian. Zone, $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-890951-91-7Despite “lazy media framing” that presents Trump-era populism as a backlash against capitalism, many of the movement’s “supposed disruptors of the status quo” are in fact agents of a new capitalist vanguard, according to this incisive account.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Deborah Baker |Quinn Slobodian |Robin Givhan |Jeremy Lin

John Seabrook. Norton, $31.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-00352-6New Jersey’s Seabrook family, if less well known today than the Murdochs or the Redstones, had a Succession story every bit as dark, according to this captivating account. New Yorker reporter Seabrook (The Song Machine), a scion of the family who plumbed its history while undergoing therapy and recovering from alcoholism—a disease he attributes to his lineage—traces the dynasty back to its founder, C.F. Seabrook (1881–1964).

1 month ago | thebaffler.com | Ranbir Sidhu |Astra Taylor |Quinn Slobodian |Jessa Crispin

A year ago, I took a friend visiting from California to a casual mixer at a rooftop bar in Athens, Greece, where I live. The mixer was arranged by the local chapter of Democrats Abroad, a get-out-the-vote organization for expat Americans in Europe. With drinks in hand and the sun setting on the Parthenon in the distance, we pushed ourselves into the knot of Americans at the far end of the patio.