Fall's most anticipated books include novels from Rachel Kushner, Sally Rooney, Danzy Senna, Michael Connelly and Richard Price.
Peak publishing season is upon us. This fall offers a bounty of books from prominent authors Danzy Senna, Rachel Kushner, Sally Rooney, Michael Connelly and Richard Price and newcomers Kay Chronister and Weike Wang. It'll see the release of novels that mark the end of beloved franchises as well as returns to familiar worlds . Our must-reads also include biographies on writers Dorothy Parker and Sanora Babb in addition to raw memoirs from Annie Ernaux and Sarah Moss.
professor Senna follows up her previous critical successes with this hilarious Los Angeles-based novel. It follows Jane, a biracial novelist who is tired of not being able to support her family, so she goes to work on a TV series with an old college friend. Wry observations about writing, Hollywood and the space she occupies as a mulatto woman make this novel a tour de force.
There’s not much one needs to say to explain the excitement over a new book by Rooney, the Irish wunderkind whose first novel is the unbelievably perfect “Conversations With Friends.” Unlike her previous books, which center on romance and its discontents, “Intermezzo” is about a family relationship: Two brothers, lawyer Peter and chess master Ivan, grapple with their father’s death.
Pishko is a journalist and lawyer whose work skillfully combines history, investigative reporting and astute political analysis in examining constitutional sheriffs’ ties to far-right militias, white nationalists and Donald Trump. It’s an intelligent, compelling narrative assaying the influences of toxic masculinity, gun culture and rural resentment, and the empowerment of sheriffs who declare themselves the ultimate arbiters of what is legal in their jurisdictions. — L.B.
Combining history, true crime and memoir, Thompson, a sportswriter for ESPN and a Mississippi native, has written a gut-punch of a book about the murder of Emmett Till and the place where it happened. Foregoing the harrowing photos that emphasize Till’s martyrdom, Thompson dives instead into family trees, court transcripts, witness memoirs and more to unearth the enormous human tragedy we forget at our peril: “Hate grows stronger and resistant,” he reminds us, “when it’s pushed underground.
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