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10 new books in March offer mental vacations March is always a big one for books – this year is no different. We call out a handful of upcoming titles for readers to put on their radars — offering a good alternative to doomscrolling.

Ever wanted to know what it would be like to read what @npr.org calls "a sort of cubist western"? Try out Alvaro Enrigue's NOW I SURRENDER!
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A Western That Goes Where Cormac McCarthy Wouldn’t Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender scraps the simplistic binary of cowboys and Indians in favor of a wild, multifaceted war story.

A rave for Alvaro Enrigue's NOW I SURRENDER in @theatlantic.com !

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The Last Days of the Apaches and a Search for a Nation Erased

"He’s one of the best we have, and he’s not done pushing against conventions."
--The New York Times Book Review

Happy publication day to NOW I SURRENDER by the inimitable Alvaro Enrigue, on sale now from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

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Women Who Made History: Documentaries | THIRTEEN - New York Public Media From U.S. Rep. Bella Abzug to housing and civil rights leaders, and the woman who helmed the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue to Martha Graham.

WNET will be screening the documentary RABBLEROUSERS tonight (3/2) at 10PM, a wonderful film about our fearless founder, Frances Goldin!
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Our Favorite Hidden Gem Books of 2025

Feel like you missed some books at the end of last year?
@nytimes.com
includes GOTHAM AT WAR in this list of "hidden gems":
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Three daring women who pursued journalism on their own terms - The Boston Globe “Starry and Restless" is Julia Cooke’s aptly titled biography of pioneering foreign correspondents Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and Emily Hahn.

The @bostonglobe.com calls @juliaccooke.bsky.social's STARRY AND RESTLESS "Thrillingly breakneck..."

On sale from @fsgbooks.bsky.social on 2/24/26

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It's official! Barbara Kingsolver's newest novel, PARTITA, will be published on October 6, 2026 🎉

The Frances Goldin Literary Agency is hiring for an internship, remote or in-person, to start in February 2026. Responsibilities in the position include reading and evaluating unsolicited submissions from writers, providing administrative support, and assisting agents with various projects. More information about the agency and the genres we represent can be found on our website: www.goldinlit.com. Please note that we do not focus on children’s/YA/MG publishing. The internship is a paid part-time position at $22.00/hour, 12 hours per week. Interns typically work two days per week, 10am-4pm, with some flexibility around hours. Specific days will be determined depending on candidates’ availability. Slight preference will be given to candidates who are able to continue the internship into the summer. If interested, please write to Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at fglahiring@gmail.com, including both a resume and a cover letter that describes your interest in working with the agency and tells us a little about what you like to read. We look forward to hearing from you! Application deadline: February 6, 2026

The Frances Goldin Literary Agency is hiring an intern for the Spring 2026 season (with possibility for extension through the summer). See below for details and instructions for applying. Applications due February 6!

9 Books That Should Be On Your Radar in 2026 The first quarter of the year is bursting with new books. Our editors think you should pick up these titles.

Alvaro Enrigue's NOW I SURRENDER and Rebecca Goldstein's THE MATTERING INSTINCT featured in PW's hotlist for 2026!

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Álvaro Enrigue Will Not Bend For his latest, the Mexican novelist explores the Apache Wars and asserts that resistance is anything but futile.

Alvaro Enrigue in @publisherswkly.bsky.social on his new novel NOW I SURRENDER, out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social in March:

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A New Understanding of Human Beings’ Most Basic Desire Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.

The philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues in her new book that the often-painful struggle to justify our existence is the very thing that makes us human, John Kaag writes:

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup Godfall by Van Jensen; The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier; The Poet Empress by Shen Tao; A Hole in the Sky by Peter F Hamilton; Hello Earth, Are You There? by Brian Aldiss

Van Jensen's GODFALL spotted in the @theguardian.com's roundup of the best SFF and horror:

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

The 20 Best Books to Read This January Our picks for the top new releases of the month.

Liz Allan’s IN BLOOM featured in Town and Country’s most anticipated books for January!

“If ever there was a book to which one could consider head banging, this might be it.”

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The Best Books of 2025 The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Thrilled to see Ray Madoff's THE SECOND ESTATE included on The New Yorker's list of best books of 2025:

www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

Opinion | The Opioid Crisis Never Ended. It Was Inherited by the Children. The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.

Barbara Kingsolver writes the powerful introduction for the @nytimes.com's photo essay on the continuing fallout of opioid addiction in Appalachia:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Martha Ackmann discusses her new book on the life of the iconic Dolly Parton NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to author Martha Ackmann about her new book on "American icon" Dolly Parton and the ambition it took the young Tennessean to reach success.

Congratulations to Martha Ackmann, whose biography of Dolly Parton, AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL, is now out everywhere and the subject of an @npr.org interview about Dolly's life:

www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...

Best Books 2025: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Best Books 2025, Staff Picks, Top 10 Best Books, Katie Kitamura, Stephen Graham Jones, John Cassidy, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Solvej Balle, Vauhini Vara, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Jeff Chang, Jordan Thomas, H...

HUGE congratulations to Jeremy Atherton Lin on his book DEEP HOUSE being a @publisherswkly.bsky.social top 10 book of 2025!

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Police Departments Surveilled Activists in the 1960s and 70s — and Erased The Records "Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and At...

In a @teenvogue.com excerpt from POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT from @princetonupress.bsky.social, Josh Clark Davis reveals how police departments illegally spied on civil rights activists—and then burned the records. www.teenvogue.com/story/police...

The visionary novelist behind YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES is back with his most expansive, impassioned novel yet‼️

NOW I SURRENDER by Álvaro Enrigue (translated to English by Natasha Wimmer) is part epic, part alt-Western, and 100% can't-be-missed. Learn more and pre-order your copy today: bit.ly/47kMhgv

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires. An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the milita...

Happy publication day to IOSI: THE REMORSEFUL SPY by Miriam Lewin, out from Seven Stories Press!

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WORK NIGHTS is longlisted for the Center for Fiction Prize! Congratulations Erica!

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PEOPLE’s Best Books of July 2025: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Bombshell Biography, A Tina Turner Photo Book and More See PEOPLE's picks for the best new books of July 2025, including new novels, celebrity memoirs and more.

Great to see Kate Broad’s debut novel GREENWICH featured by @peoplemag.bsky.social as a best book of July!

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Happy publication day to MOTHER OF METHADONE by @melodyglenn.bsky.social, now out from @beaconpress.bsky.social !

28 debut books to discover in July 2025 Here are the debut books that caught Debutiful’s eye this month. We think readers will find plenty to love among them. To see our curated list of standout titles, check out our “12 Noteworthy Debut…

Honored for "Mother of Methadone" to be included in @debutiful.bsky.social's list of books to read in July! @beaconpress.bsky.social @penparentis.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social debutiful.net/2025/07/11/2...

The wise @rainalips.bsky.social on #Mamdani's win: “You don’t get anywhere responding to the racist, fascist, aggression of ppl like Donald Trump w a defensive crouch. You can only win by standing up for yourself, by being brave & uniting w other ppl.” ⬇️ @versobooks.bsky.social

Inside the life of a woman hotshot battling blazes in the American West A female hotshot firefighter's inside look at battling the ever-hotter and more frequent wildfires in America's West

A red-hot happy publication day to Kelly Ramsey and her memoir WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING AMERICAN WEST, which publishes today with @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

Read an excerpt at @newsweek.com !

www.newsweek.com/2025/06/27/w...

Contributor: Why 'monstrify'? Look at who benefits when few are considered fully human The category of 'human' is shrinking as politicians, tech bros and right-wing pundits divide the world into two groups: You're a cis-het white man, or you're a monster.

In the @latimes.com, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, author of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, writes incisively on MONSTRIFYING undocumented migrants, an age-old strategy used through history to dehumanize & normalize campaigns to strip individuals of human rights. @ucpress.bsky.social

She became a ‘hotshot’ wilderness firefighter to write about being on the front lines Author Kelly Ramsey details how her new book, 'Wildfire Days,' chronicles her time fighting some of California's most dangerous wildfires. We also check in with Diesel, A Bookstore.

Thank you to @latimes.com for this q & a with Kelly Ramsey, author of WILDFIRE DAYS: A WOMAN, A HOTSHOT CREW, AND THE BURNING OF THE AMERICAN WEST in advance of its publication on 6/17 !

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A Missive Sent Straight from the Mayhem: On Michelle Tea’s Valencia by Maggie Nelson May 21, 2025 – "I want to talk about Valencia’s achievement in transmitting the conjoined rush of being young, being high, being in love, and becoming a writer—and how that rush feels when these thing...

Maggie Nelson on @michelletea.bsky.social’s raucous, remarkable classic VALENCIA — “a missive sent straight from the mayhem” — celebrating its 25th anniversary this June with beautiful new editions from Seal Press and Serpent’s Tail www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...

Book cover of Mother of Methadone highlighting Dr. Marie Nyswander

"Mother of Methadone advocates a range of ways that the medical and social justice worlds can work together... [and] presents a cogent argument against the continued criminalization of drug use." @newpages.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social @goldinagency.bsky.social @methadonelib.bsky.social