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draining experience of exploring snake-infested wilderness on foot and the
remarkable archeological finds along the
way.
Night Thoughts
Wallace Shawn (Haymarket)
Shawn, the award-winning playwright
and acclaimed actor, airs his thoughts on
an array of topics—civilization, social
mobility, Beethoven, and 11th-century
Japanese court poetry—in a discursive
meditation on inequality and privilege.
Acerbic yet compassionate, Shawn’s
writing epitomizes qualities he
admires—curiosity, thoughtfulness,
sharp logic, deep emotion—and sees
society turning away from.
No Is Not Enough:
Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics
and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein (Haymarket)
Trumpism is not an aberration, but
disaster but looked to as an
inspirational moment in a
grand narrative of human
liberation.
The Potlikker Papers:
A Food History of the
Modern South
John T. Edge (Penguin Press)
James Beard Award–
winning writer and Southern food
historian Edge thoroughly explores the
foodways and evolution of cooking in the
American South. It’s superb history that
celebrates the cooks, waiters, and activists—both well-known and unsung—
who shaped the region’s cooking.
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead)
Poet Lockwood (Motherland Fatherland
Homelandsexuals) is irreverent and hilarious in this memoir of when she and her
husband moved back in with her parents. Her father is a practicing, married
Catholic priest (yes, really) who loves
cars, guns, and Baileys Irish Cream and
conducts family meetings in his underwear. Try not to squirm.
Queen of Bebop:
The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
Elaine M. Hayes (Ecco)
Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan gets her
due in this fantastic biography. Jazz historian Hayes movingly evokes 1920s
Newark, N.J., where Vaughan first sang
in her church choir; from there, Hayes
follows Vaughan’s career until her death
in 1990, showing that, no matter how
challenging Vaughan’s life became, she
remained in control of her musical career
during a time when few female performers could.
The Secret Life:
Three True Stories of the Digital Age
Andrew O’Hagan (FSG)
In this splendid collection, O’Hagan
explores identity in the internet era. His
profile of WikiLeaks founder Julian
Drawing on her previous
work, she lays out how we
got to now and what to do
about it, pointing to Canada’s
Leap Manifesto and A Vision
for Black Lives in the U.S. as
the early growths of anti-racist, ecologi-
cally minded anticapitalist movements.
October:
The Story of the Russian Revolution
China Miéville (Verso)
A century on, the nature of the Russian
Revolution remains hotly contested,
both within and outside of leftist circles.
Miéville, a master storyteller, makes a
powerful case in his first nonfiction work
that the Bolsheviks’ October success
should not be disavowed as the onset of
