Out this week: Insurrecto by Gina Apostol; The April 3rd Incident by Yu Hua; Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel; In/Half by Jasmin B. Frelih; The Patch by John McPhee; and The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen. For more on these and other new titles, go read our most recent book preview.
Tuesday New Release Day: Apostol; Hua; Vogel; Frelih; McPhee; Franzen
Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Obreht, Tokarczuk, Nganang, Parsons, Kendi, and More
It's mid-August and the new books coming out this week are hot! Tea Obrecht returns and Ibram X. Kendi teaches us how to be antiracists.
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Dystopia’s Meta-Dangers
“Why write in an unlovable genre with an inevitably hectoring tone? Dystopia, situated in a dangerous no-man’s-land between the pulpit of the preacher and the safe sniper post of the satirist.” Future futurists, take note: the New York Review of Books reviews Chang-Rae Lee’s addition to your dystopic shelf, On Such a Full Sea, and ponders the virtues of the dystopic endeavor itself. (Bonus: Lee writes about his own 2013 Year in Reading here at The Millions.)
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Trailers! Get Ya Trailers Here!
The trailer for Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is out, and it’s b-e-a-utiful.
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Looking Outside
Recommended Reading: Tasha Golden on the Lone Genius myth.
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The Poetic Seas
“China will establish a naming system for seabed areas based on the country’s oldest poetry collection, the country’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said on Monday.”
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