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Liars. By Sarah Manguso. July 2024. 272p. Hogarth, $28 (9780593241257). Jane, a writer beginning to experience professional success, falls in love with John, a filmmaker with ambitions of his own. [...]

How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone. By Cameron Russell. Mar. 2024. 224p. Random, $28 (9780593595480); e-book (9780593595497). 306.47. Modeling was not the career path Russell expected to pursue, but [...]

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent. By Judi Dench and Brendan O'Hea. Apr. 2024. 400p. St. Martin's, $32 (9781250325778); e-book (9781250325785). 822.33. Over the span of her seven-decade career, [...]

Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games. Ed. by Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon. Nov. 2023. 224p. Graywolf, paper, $18 (9781644452615). 794.8. Though video games are a relatively new [...]

* Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country. By Patricia Evangelista. Oct. 2023. 448p. Random, $30 (9780593133132); e-book (9780593133156). 364.409599. In this meticulously researched account of [...]

The Day Tripper. By James Goodhand. Mar. 2024. 368p. MIRA, $28.99 (9780778369646); e-book (9780369748706). In the summer of 1995, Alex enjoys the best day of his life. He's smitten with [...]

Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York. By Barbara Weisberg. Feb. 2024. 386p. Norton, $28.99 (9780393531527). 306.8. In 1862, a single confession upturned one of New York's elite [...]

Alphabetical Diaries. By Sheila Heti. Feb. 2024. 224p. Farrar, $27 (9780374610784). 818. Playful yet disciplined, Heti's (Pure Colour, 2022) latest book is an experiment in literature. The concept is simple: [...]

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me. By Aisha Harris. June 2023.320p. HarperOne, $29.99 (9780063249943); e-book (9780063249967). 306.42. In her debut essay collection, Harris tackles her relationship to [...]

60 Songs That Explain the '90s. By Rob Harvilla. Nov. 2023. 288p. Grand Central, $30 (9781538759462). 782.421640973. Like his hit podcast of the same name, The Ringer writer Harvilla's debut [...]

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment. By Susannah Breslin. Nov. 2023. 224p. Legacy Lit, $29 (9780306926006); e-book (9780306925993). 155.2. Shortly after her birth, Breslin was enrolled in the [...]

The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor. By Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key. Oct. 2023.256P. illus. Chronicle, $29.95 (9781797216836); e-book (9781797218977). 809.2. In [...]

Wound. By Oksana Vasyakina. Tr. by Elina Alter. Sept. 2023.240P. Catapult, $27 (9781646221448); e-book (9781646221455). When Vasyakina begins her debut novel, a work of autofiction, the narrator, a young poet, [...]

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. By Tara Isabella Burton. June 2023.288p. PublicAffairs, $30 (9781541789012). 150. Novelist and scholar Burton (Strange Rites, 2021, The World Cannot [...]

Berlin. By Bea Setton. May 2023.256p. Penguin, paper, $17 (9780143137627). At the center of Setton's debut is Daphne, a listless young woman who tries to escape her problems by moving [...]

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping. By Shane McCrae. Aug. 2023.272p. Scribner, $27 (9781668021743). 364.154. Poet McCrae (Cain Named the Animal, 2022) examines his childhood [...]

The Dead Are Gods. By Eirinie Carson. Apr. 2023. 240p. Melville, $27.99 (9781685890452). 810. In her debut memoir, Carson examines the life of her dearest friend, Larissa. When Larissa died [...]

The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother. By Cassandra Jackson. May 2023. 320p. Viking, $27 (9780593490020); e-book (9780593490037). 306.85. In this lyrical memoir, literature professor Jackson (The Toni [...]

Chrysalis. By Anna Metcalfe. Apr. 2023.272P. Random, $27 (9780593446959). In her first novel, fiction author and writing instructor Metcalfe examines the life of an unnamed young woman on a quest [...]

The Great Reclamation. By Rachel Heng. Mar. 2023. 464p. Riverhead, $28 (9780593420119); e-book (9780593420133). The twentieth century saw Singapore transform from a British colony into an independent nation. This dizzying [...]

Stash: My Life in Hiding. By Laura Cathcart Robbins. Mar. 2023. 288p. Atria, $27.99 (9781668005330); e-book, $14.99 (9781668005354). 362.2909. In her debut book, Cathcart Robbins details the end of her [...]