Vincent Schiraldi

Oct 18, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Tariq Trotter |Vincent Schiraldi |Mark Bittman |Silvia Killingsworth

Francesca Peacock. Pegasus, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63936-603-3Journalist Peacock debuts with an excellent biography of 17th-century English author and “proto-feminist” Margaret Cavendish (née Lucas). Born in 1623, Margaret grew up in a wealthy family whose Royalist sympathies during the English Civil War inspired her at age 20 to join Queen Henrietta Maria’s court as a lady-in-waiting.

Oct 17, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Tariq Trotter |Vincent Schiraldi |Mark Bittman |Silvia Killingsworth

Ryan Grim. Holt, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-86907-4The celebrated coterie of congressional progressives—representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and their glamorous leader, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—has started a civil war in the Democratic Party, according to this insightful political study.