{"id":176700,"date":"2025-08-26T09:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:50:24","slug":"richard-siken-helen-oyeyemi-andre-breton-17-new-books-out-today-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176700\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Siken! Helen Oyeyemi! Andr\u00e9 Breton! 17 new books out today. \u2039 Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"Gabrielle<\/p>\n

August 26, 2025, 4:32am<\/p>\n

The end of the summer is almost here, and it feels difficult to believe that fall is approaching; 2025 remains a year in which time has consistently seemed too fast and too slow all at once. Still, one thing remains predictable: that there are new books to look forward to. Below, you\u2019ll find seventeen new options in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with an especially robust showing from our nonfiction writers.<\/p>\n

I hope you\u2019ll add these to your lists to close out August. It\u2019ll be worth it.<\/p>\n

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\"A<\/p>\n

Helen Oyeyemi,\u00a0A New New Me<\/a>
(Riverhead)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOyeyemi\u2019s prose is propelled by a subtle animism; her sentences sometimes seem to contain the whole book in miniature\u2026.Genres and registers collide: her prose offers, in a single page, poetic candor, sly wit, dad jokes, and contemporary therapyspeak\u2026.Some novels insist on being read as prescriptions for living; Oyeyemi\u2019s simply depicts a process: one splinter of a soul briefly gains control of a body, and goes out to be engulfed by the world.\u201d
\u2013The New Yorker<\/p>\n

\"Starting<\/p>\n

Paula Sanders,\u00a0Starting from Here<\/a>
(Random House)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI read Paula Saunders\u2019s page-turning second novel,\u00a0Starting from Here,\u00a0in one intoxicating gulp. The story demands it. It\u2019s a mother-daughter wrangle and also our\u00a0Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Saunders wowed me with her psychological acuity in her debut,\u00a0The Distance Home, and this new offering exceeds that jewel. Brava!\u201d
\u2013Mary Karr<\/p>\n

\"Sea,<\/p>\n

Kim de l\u2019Horizon,\u00a0Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues <\/a>(trans. Jamie Lee Searle)
(FSG)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn ambitious queer coming of-age novel about family, language, and writing\u2026.A crucible of absolute stylistic liberty.\u201d
\u2013EL Diario<\/p>\n

\"Cavalier<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 Breton,\u00a0Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays 1952-1966 <\/a>(trans. Austin Carder)
(City Lights Books)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAddressing all the major themes that preoccupied Breton throughout his career\u2014from Trotskyism and anti-colonialism to anti-rationalism, the role of the marvelous, and the \u2018complete liberation of poetry and, through it, of life\u2019\u2014these late essays amount to the last word of one of the most influential aesthetic minds of the twentieth century\u2026a vivid portrait of an age\u2026.Austin Carder has performed a monster feat of translation here, catching every nuance of Breton\u2019s sinuous, faceted thinking.\u201d
\u2013Cole Swensen<\/p>\n

\"Destroy<\/p>\n

Amanda Uhle,\u00a0Destroy This House<\/a>
(Simon & Schuster\/Summit Books)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe American Dream turns pathological in Amanda Uhle\u2019s beautiful memoir,\u00a0Destroy This House, as Uhle reckons with her parents\u2019 snarled identities and confounding lifestyles. Poignant, wryly funny, and exquisitely written, Uhle masterfully depicts the confluence of ambition and greed, pioneerism and narcissism, love and pain. I devoured every sentence.\u201d
\u2013Erika Krouse<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\u00a0Miriam Toews,\u00a0A Truce That Is Not Peace<\/a>
(Bloomsbury)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do I write?\u00a0Miriam Toews\u2019s response to this impossible-to-answer prompt gives way to a haunting, tragi-comic, and incredibly moving inquiry into the landscapes and the people that define us; the parts of life that make no sense; and the things that, against all odds, keep us alive.\u00a0A Truce That Is Not Peace is essential reading, a smart and wise companion for turbulent times.\u201d
\u2013Laura van den Berg<\/p>\n

\"I<\/p>\n

Richard Siken,\u00a0I Do Know Some Things<\/a>
(Copper Canyon Press)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[A] brave book. It is brave not only in its content, but its method. It is brave to write about childhood scars, the heartbreak the dead leave behind, or how one\u2019s life must be reconfigured in the aftermath of a stroke, much less all three, which are among the subjects in this collection of seventy-seven prose poems. It is even braver to present these subjects without ornament, with nothing to hide behind\u2026as powerful, and important, as anything Richard Siken has released.\u201d
\u2013Zack Strait<\/p>\n

\"Lost<\/p>\n

Mizuki Tsujimura, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon<\/a>
(Scribner)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDisplaying a matter-of-fact approach to the fantastical that recalls early Haruki Murakami, Tsujimura\u2019s novel is an enchanting read.\u201d
\u2013Financial Times<\/p>\n

\"Mona's<\/p>\n

Thomas Schlesser,\u00a0Mona\u2019s Eyes<\/a>
(Europa Editions)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cArt historian Schlesser\u2019s vibrant English-language debut frames a survey of classical Western art with the story of a Parisian man supporting his ten-year-old granddaughter after her sudden bout of temporary blindness\u2026.Schlesser seamlessly interweaves the art lessons with Mona\u2019s story, which concludes with an explanation for the cause of her blindness. Readers of Jostein Gaarder\u2019s Sophie\u2019s World will love this.\u201d
\u2013Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Katherine Faulkner,\u00a0The Break-In<\/a>
(Gallery\/Scout Press)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cKatherine Faulkner is the master of throwing ordinary women into extraordinary, what-would-you-do situations. With her razor sharp takes on middle class motherhood, this is an up-all-night thriller packed with style, acuity, and intrigue.\u201d
\u2013Abigail Dean<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Kelly Sundberg, The Answer Is in the Wound: Trauma, Rage, and Alchemy<\/a>
(Roxane Gay Books)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[Sundberg\u2019s] genre-blending approach to memoir viscerally invites readers to participate in the author\u2019s alchemical transformation of trauma, shame, and rage into\u2026a narrative that integrates and reinvokes past abuse and experiences in a beautiful sense of presence and purpose\u2026each hard-earned, heart-worn word matters. A painfully beautiful memoir that will appeal to readers of Carmen Maria Machado while also being utterly, unforgettably original.\u201d
\u2013Library Journal<\/p>\n

\"Before<\/p>\n

Jacob Tobia, Before They Were Men: Essays on Manhood, Compassion, and What Went Wrong<\/a>
(Harmony)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWith wit sharp enough to shave a mustache and tenderness deep enough to hold grief, Jacob Tobia has created something urgent and original: a way to talk about masculinity without abandoning those shaped by it. Part memoir, part cultural reckoning, these essays don\u2019t preach\u2014they illuminate, offering us a road map to repair, from one of the most groundbreaking voices on gender writing today.\u201d
\u2013Jen Winston<\/p>\n

\"Backstage<\/p>\n

Donna Leon,\u00a0Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life<\/a>
(Atlantic Monthly)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBrilliantly observant and skilled\u2026.These thirty-two essays give readers a welcome behind-the-scenes look at the prolific novelist [behind the Guido Brunetti\u00a0series]\u2026.At last, readers can join Leon on the canals of Venice as she tells them about some of her favorite things.\u201d
\u2013Library Journal<\/p>\n

\"Children<\/p>\n

Ilana Kurshan,\u00a0Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together<\/a>
(St. Martin\u2019s Press)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIlana Kurshan\u2019s dual memoir of her life as a parent alongside her lifelong love affair with reading is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and startlingly poignant. From lessons on friendship learned from\u00a0Frog and Toad\u00a0to the\u00a0Giving Tree\u2019s cautionary tale about love and boundaries, Kurshan shows how the classics of children\u2019s literature work not just to entertain kids but to help parents emotionally connect with them\u2026with wit, verve, and style.\u201d
\u2013Ruth Franklin<\/p>\n

\"Tell<\/p>\n

LaShawn Harris,\u00a0Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs and the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City<\/a>
(Beacon Press)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLaShawn Harris has given us a great gift. She has taken Eleanor Bumpurs from a poignant image on a poster and given us a rich sense of Bumpurs\u2019 life and family experiences, a crucial analysis of the 1980s economic and police violence that killed her, and a moving history of her family\u2019s and community\u2019s fight for justice. A must-read and an extraordinary piece of research.\u201d
\u2013Jeanne Theoharris<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Howard W. French,\u00a0The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide<\/a>
(Liveright)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn this magisterial account, journalist French (Born in Blackness) revisits the history of the Pan-Africanist movement through the life of Ghanaian prime minister Kwame Nkrumah, who in 1957 became the first head of state of the first colonized African nation to gain independence\u2026.Weaving a staggering amount of history into a propulsive narrative that recasts the twentieth century as a long struggle for liberation, this is a towering achievement.\u201d
\u2013Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Peter Brannen,\u00a0The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World<\/a>
(Ecco)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[U]rgent and astounding\u2026Brannen weaves together the entire history of Earth, and the origins and tribulations of life over billions of years, with the predicament we find ourselves in today. With the lyricism of John McPhee and scientific bona fides rivaling any academic geologist, Brannen is in a class of his own as the preeminent scribe of Earth science today. This is the book that I want all of my Earth science students to read, and every policymaker and politician too.\u201d
\u2013Steve Brusatte<\/p>\n

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