Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Photos by Publishers After a year of industry chaos and many delayed book releases, 2021 brings a bumper crop of new fiction and nonfiction books — including a collection by cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib and much-anticipated novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen. It also brings promising fiction debuts from writers such as the late Anthony Veasna So and poet Melissa Lozada-Oliva.
$23 at Amazon Buy $24 at Bookshop Buy Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters $27 $27 Photo: Publisher Peters’s novel follows a trans couple, Amy and Reese, whose lives are turned upside down when Amy decides to detransition and become Ames. When Ames gets his lover/boss, Katarina, pregnant, things are flipped upside down once more.
$17 at Amazon Buy $16 at Bookshop Buy Milk Fed by Melissa Broder $26 $26 Photo: Publisher Broder is back with a new novel about a 24-year-old in Los Angeles named Rachel, who has an eating disorder, a disordered relationship with her mother, and a stand-up comedy hobby. At a therapist’s recommendation, Rachel goes on a 90-day detox from her mom and instead finds herself falling for a fro-yo heir, Miriam, whose family’s Judaism looks deeply different from Rachel’s own.
$15 at Amazon Buy $14 at Bookshop Buy Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler $26 $26 Photo: Publisher A debut novel from critic Oyler, Fake Accounts chronicles a woman who, at the dawning of the Trump presidency, discovers her boyfriend is a decently famous Instagram conspiracy theorist. That discovery is revealed on the novel’s back cover — but it’s a second, even more dramatic twist that upends the nameless narrator’s life and got me hooked on this book.
$27 at Amazon Buy $25 at Bookshop Buy Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans $15 $15 Photo: Publisher In this poetry collection, spoken-word artist Jasmine Mans pulls at all the threads of who she is as a Black queer woman from Newark, unravels herself, then puts herself back together via clear, precise language that brooks no argument. In the poem “Because I Am a Woman Now,” the speaker wants the comfort of a lie, but knows that womanhood means facing truth in new, vague ways.
$18 at Amazon Buy $17 at Bookshop Buy A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib $27 $27 Photo: Publisher In Abdurraqib’s 2019 book Go Ahead in the Rain, a genre-bending tribute to A Tribe Called Quest, he blended criticism and historical analysis with personal essays and poetry.
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