American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda
By Ru Marshall
The 1970s hustler claimed he’d been sent by a shaman.
Carryout: Stories
By Hasan Dudar
Palestinian refugees settle in Toledo, Ohio, and struggle to adapt to their new culture.
Tommy Orange’s There There offers a searing reading experience.
This Past Was Waiting for Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century
By Sarah Trembath
An astute, multi-genre analysis of gentrification’s destructiveness.
The biographer talks Mary Kay, direct sales, and those signature pink Cadillacs.
Ghost-Eye: A Novel
By Amitav Ghosh
An expansive tale of myth and modernity in India.
The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
By Robert Wright
Evolution has been building toward something — and we’re not going to like what it is.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
By Irene Solà; translated by Mara Faye Lethem
Women confront the devil, the perversity of war, and their own capacity for malice.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
The Rarest Fruit
By Gaëlle Bélem; translated by Hildegarde Serle
An enslaved boy’s cuisine-altering innovation is credited to his white “father.”
A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy
By Tony Lee Moral
Two figures from the auteur’s orbit feature heavily in this new biography.
