18 New Books Coming in October
Buzzy new novels from Jesmyn Ward, Tananarive Due and Daniel Clowes; biographies of Madonna and Sam Bankman-Fried; John Grisham’s sequel to “The Firm”; and much more.
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Books
‘Germany 1923’: When Democracy Held Nazism at Bay
In his latest book, the German historian Volker Ullrich describes a nation buffeted by poverty, hyperinflation and political extremism, but managing — for the moment — to thwart Hitler’s ascent.
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A Mother’s Quest for Justice in a Lawless Mexican State
FEAR IS JUST A WORD: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother’s Quest for Vengeance, by Azam Ahmed According to “2666,” Roberto Bolaño’s magnum opus, published posthumously in 2004, the “secret of the world” remained hidden in Santa Teresa …
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Books About Elites That Elites Will Probably Enjoy
The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.
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Jayne Anne Phillips Finds Anguish and Asylum in Civil War America
Her new novel, “Night Watch,” is a mother-daughter story set in a West Virginia mental institution.
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In Her Fiction, Ayana Mathis Refuses to Ignore Black History
Her second novel, “The Unsettled,” follows three generations in a family divided between the North and the South in 1980s America.
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Kerry Washington Goes Deep
Kerry Washington’s true colors came out over a pink cardboard box of croissants. “You have to take them back to your office,” said Washington, 46, as she sat, cross-legged, on a wingback chair at the Spence School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “No …
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How a Gun Made for Combat Found Its Way Into Millions of Homes
“American Gun,” by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, recounts the grim history of the AR-15 rifle in unvarnished detail.
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The Ghost in the Mirror
In spooky stories by Ben Hatke, Remy Lai and the team of Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, the secrets of the undead lead perilously close to home.
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A Lush Novel at the Nexus of Food, Pleasure, Wealth and Catastrophe
In C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey,” a chef finds herself in an elite community for the superrich in the Italian Alps, one of the last places on Earth where crops still grow.
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