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Davey Davis – Casanova 20 or, Hot World

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hot World review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Catapult will publish the new Davey Davis novel, on December 2, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hot World reviews

  • “A story that digs unflinchingly into the intimacy of both sex and illness … Davis’s characters are so haunted by the past that it often becomes syntactically interwoven with the present … Casanova 20 achieves this interjectory effect, punching through the well-charted terrains of sex, death, art, pleasure, and beauty with hedonistically lived-in details and incisive observations that rub the reader right up against the skin and the bedpan.” (Annie Lou Martin, The Whitney Review)
  • “The novel’s conceit is big, its prose attention-grabbing, its sexual joie de vivre propulsive, but, in the end, the most compelling part is the tender nuance of its central characters as they love both each other and the world. The result is a rare gem of a book—afraid of neither joy nor sorrow and patient enough to find the human heart inside all its gorgeous language. A show-stopping novel that carries within it a quiet, steadfast heart.” (Kirkus Review)

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hor World

Casanova 20

or, Hot World

  • Author: Davey Davis (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Catapult
  • Released: December 2, 2025
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 17.95 / $ 12,99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Davey Davis novel

A novel about art, desire, and mortality, Casanova 20: Or, Hot World follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter.

Cursed by an extreme and unrelenting beauty, Adrian has drawn the frenzied attention of adoring strangers since childhood. As a twenty-nine-year-old in New York City, he spends his days drifting between affairs with women (and occasionally men) who provide him with everything he needs, from spending money to luxurious vacations to even, once, a mini yacht. With this generosity comes a dangerous possessiveness that often puts him at risk of much worse than heartbreak. But as people begin removing their masks in the spring of 2021, Adrian’s aimless sexual availability is interrupted by a shocking discovery: He is no longer beautiful.

Across the country, Adrian’s best friend and companion, Mark, a world-famous painter, has returned to the family home in rural Northern California. He’s faced with his own horrible revelation: He’s dying from the same mysterious disease that will soon take his mother and sister.

Despite the depth of their platonic romance, neither man reveals his fate to the other. Feeling as if he’s disappearing from sight, Adrian searches for answers among his thousands of lovers. In a race against his failing body, Mark becomes obsessed with watching fifty-two VHS tapes of unknown origin, left to him by his sister, before it’s too late.

Davey Davis is the author of X and the earthquake room. They write a weekly newsletter and mutual aid fundraiser about art, culture, sexuality, and people named David at itsdavid.substack.com. They live in Brooklyn.

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Salman Rushdie – De levensavond

Salman Rushdie De levensavond recensie en informatie boek over de laatste fase van het leven. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Pluim de Nederlandse vertaling van The Eleventh Hour het boek met verhalen van Salman Rushdie. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Salman Rushdie De levensavond recensie

  • “Rushdie heeft niet alleen het bereik van de literatuur vergroot, hij heeft ook de verbeeldingskracht van de wereld verrijkt.” (The Times)
  • “Meer dan 40 jaar na Midnight’s Children is er nog steeds niemand die zo’n goed verhaal vertelt als Salman Rushdie.” (Spectator)
  • “Na een aanslag die hij ternauwernood overleefde, zag Salman Rushdie even geen heil meer in fictie. Gelukkig is het geloof terug: hij schreef vijf fascinerende (spook)verhalen over sereniteit, razernij, waanzin en de dood.” (Toef Jaeger, NRC)

Salman Rushdie De levensavond

De levensavond

  • Auteur: Salman Rushdie
  • Soort boek: verhalen over het levenseinde
  • Origineel: The Eleventh Hour (4 november 2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Karina van Santen, Martine Vosmaer
  • Uitgever: Uitgeverij Pluim
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Salman Rushdie over het levenseinde

In een novelle en vier verhalen richt Salman Rushdie zich op de laatste fase van het leven. Met zijn buitengewone verbeeldingskracht brengt hij de drie landen waar hij zijn boeken schreef – India, Engeland en de Verenigde Staten – en een onvergetelijke reeks personages tot leven.

Leggen wij ons neer bij de dood, of gaan we er tegenin? Slijten we onze levensavond in berusting of in razernij? En hoe leven we een zinvol bestaan als we niet kunnen weten hoe ons verhaal afloopt? Scherpzinnig, creatief en vol overtuiging buigt De levensavond zich over het leven en de dood, nalatenschap en identiteit.

Salman Rushdie is schrijver van vijftien romans en meerdere verhalenbundels. Voor Middernachtskinderen won hij de Booker Prize en de Best of the Booker. In 2007 werd hij geridderd voor zijn verdiensten voor de literatuur. Zijn voorlaatste boek Mes dat ij 2024 verscheen, is een aangrijpend persoonlijk verslag over het doorstaan – en overleven – van een moordaanslag op zijn leven.

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Riley Sager – Wraakzucht

Riley Sager Wraakzucht recensie, review en informatie over de Amerikaanse thriller over een treinreis in 1942. Op 24 maart 2026 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van With a Vengeance, de nieuwe thriller van Riley Sager, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige thrillerschrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Riley Sager Wraakzucht recensie en review

  • “Sager weet op behendige wijze alle elementen samen te brengen in een meeslepend, spannend verhaal over hebzucht, moord en wraak.” (David Baldacci)
  • “Een thriller met een afgesloten kamer op zijn best! Non-stop spanning met wendingen die je hoofd doen tollen.” (Freida McFadden)

Riley Sager Wraakzucht

Wraakzucht

  • Auteur: Riley Sager (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller, historische thriller
  • Origineel: With a Vengeance (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Anne Jongeling
  • Uitgever: Amabo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 24 maart 2026
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Riley Sager thriller

In 1942 waren zes mensen verantwoordelijk voor de ondergang van de steenrijke familie Matheson. Dochter Anna neemt twaalf jaar later wraak. Onder valse voorwendselen heeft ze de daders uitgenodigd voor een luxe treinreis van Philadelphia naar Chicago, een nachtreis van dertien uur. Haar doel? De mensen confronteren die haar onrecht hebben aangedaan en hen overdragen aan de autoriteiten. Anna’s plan wordt doorkruist door de moord op een van de passagiers.

De trein raast voort en de dader lijkt niet te zullen stoppen totdat iedereen dood is. Anna móét de moordenaar vinden, en daarbij de mensen beschermen die ze meer dan wie dan ook haat. Zelfs als ze daarvoor haar eigen leven op het spel moet zetten.

Riley Sager is het pseudoniem van Todd Ritter een voormalig journalist, redacteur en grafisch ontwerper. Hij is de auteur van onder andere De laatste meisjes, Mijn laatste leugen en De enige die overbleef, allemaal bestsellers. Sager woont in Princeton, New Jersey.

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John Grisham – De weduwe

John Grisham De weduwe recensie, review en informatie nieuwe thriller van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 21 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij A.W. Bruna Uitgevers de Nederlandse vertaling van The Widow, het nieuwe boek van John Grisham, de thrillerschrijver uit de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

John Grisham De weduwe recensie en review

John Grisham is een veelschrijver die al vele duizenden pagina’s volgeschreven heeft met spannende verhalen. Duidelijk heeft hij een voorkeur voor de juridische thriller, alhoewel dit niet voor al van zijn boeken geldt. Bovendien heeft hij een voorliefde voor personages die hun hand overspelen en die zich daardoor diep in de nesten werken. En dit laatst is ook weer het onderwerp van deze thriller.

Hoofdpersoon Simon Latch is een advocaat in een provinciestad. Maar in tegenstelling tot sommige van zijn collega’s in de stad verdient hij nauwelijks genoeg om zijn hoofd boven water te houden. Dan doet zich een kans voor als hij bij toeval een weduwe ontmoet. De nalatenschap van haar man lijkt van hoge waarde te zijn en vrijwel niemand weet ervan af. Latch stort zich vol op de zaak in de verwachting dat deze hem uit zijn eigen financiële problemen zal helpen.

Echter als blijkt dat de weduwe heeft gelogen en een spel speelt komt hij zelf in de problemen. Zo erg zelfs dat hij verdacht wordt van moord. Een levenslange gevangenisstraf hang hem boven het hoofd.

Ook nu weer slaagt John Grisham er weer in de lezer een spannend en boeiend verhaal voor te schotelen, vanzelfsprekend weer verlevendigd met de nodige ironische observaties. De ruim 500 pagina’s dikke juridische thriller zal de liefhebbers van Grisham zeker niet teleurstellen en ook wie nog nooit een boek van de schrijver heeft gelezen zal er plezier aan beleven. Het boek is gewaardeerd met ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed).

John Grisham De weduwe

De weduwe

  • Auteur: John Grisham (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Origineel: The Widow (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Saskia Peterzon-Kotte
  • Uitgever: A.W. Bruna Uitgevers
  • Verschijnt: 21 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 24,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe John Grisham thriller

Advocaat Simon Latch verdient net genoeg om rond te komen. Maar wanneer hij Eleanor Barnett ontmoet, een oudere weduwe die een nieuw testament nodig heeft, keren zijn kansen. Eleanors echtgenoot heeft haar namelijk een klein fortuin nagelaten waar vrijwel niemand van afweet.

Dan blijkt dat het verhaal van de weduwe niet klopt, en wordt Simon aangeklaagd voor moord. Hij weet dat hij onschuldig is, maar hij zou zomaar levenslang kunnen krijgen. Om zichzelf te redden, zit er dan ook maar één ding op: zelf de echte moordenaar vinden.

John Grisham is op 8 februari 1955 geboren in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten, als tweede kind in een gezin van vijf. Na zijn studie rechten aan de University of Mississippi werkte hij bijna tien jaar lang als jurist, waarbij hij zich specialiseerde in strafrechtelijke zaken en letselschadeclaims. In 1983 werd hij gekozen tot lid van het Huis van Afgevaardigden van de staat Mississippi, een functie die hij tot 1990 bekleedde. Als thrillerschrijver debuteerde hij in 1988 is de auteur van meer dan vijftig thrillers en romans, waarvan er vele werden verfilmd. Hij is een van de succesvolste thrillerschrijvers aller tijden. In zowel zijn boeken als in zijn eigen leven voert hij strijd tegen onrecht en trekt hij zich het lot aan van diegenen in de samenleving die er alleen voor staan of niet de middelen hebben om voor zichzelf op te komen.

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Colson Whitehead – Cool Machine

Colson Whitehead Cool Machine review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Doubleday will publish the Colson Whitehead novel and final volume of his Harlem Trilogy, on July 21, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Colson Whitehead Cool Machine reviews

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Colson Whitehead Cool Machine

Cool Machine

Harlem trilogy part 3

  • Author: Colson Whitehead (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • To be released: July 21, 2026
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: hardback / paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Colson Whitehead novel and Harlem Shuffle part 3

An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.

1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture’s Dealer of the Month. When the banks won’t give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.

1983. To some, Carney’s friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he’s feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he’s plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you’re uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence—Pepper is a native speaker.

1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie’s death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie’s son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he’s spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.

With his usual pitch-perfect prose Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.

Colson Whitehead is born November 6, 1969 in New York City. He is the author of The Underground Railroad, which in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. He lives in New York City.

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Ha Jin – Looking for Tank Man

Ha Jin Looking for Tank Man review review and information of the content of the new novel by the Chinese American writer and poet about hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Other Press will publish the new Ha Jin novel, on October 21, 2025.

Ha Jin Looking for Tank Man review

  • “Looking for Tank Man is a deeply moving and important novel, shaped by meticulous research and illuminated by Ha Jin’s singular voice. Spanning Harvard, Flushing, and Beijing, it traverses geographies and timelines to tell the powerful story of one young woman’s quest for knowledge, and how her findings reshape her understanding of her homeland and herself. This is a novel that captures the urgency of reckoning with atrocity, the intergenerational weight of history, and how the past—once uncovered—continues to shape our moral consciousness. A vital, haunting story about truth, memory, and the price of knowing.” (Michelle Min Sterling, author of Camp Zero)
  • “A timely cautionary tale about authoritarian rule and a sensitive portrayal of the power of knowledge and the challenges of academia.” (Booklist)

Ha Jin Looking for Tank Man

Looking for Tankman

  • Author: Ha Jin (United States)
  • Book type: Novel about Tiananmen Square protests
  • Publisher: Other Press
  • Released: 21 October 2025
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 19.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new novel by Ha Jin

A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest and suppression from the National Book Award–winning author.

When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone protester, who will drastically change her understanding of the People’s Republic and her own place in the world. For the first time, Lulu learns of the 1989 protest movement and the government’s violent response. Determined to find out more, she seeks answers from her family, who share surprising stories of their involvement, and from a formative university course based on powerful firsthand accounts.

At once a compelling coming-of-age tale and a poignant tribute to the courage of activists, Looking for Tank Man keeps this tragedy alive in the public memory and warns against the dangers of authoritarian regimes.

Ha Jin, real name Jin Xuefei (金雪飞), was born February 21, 1956 in Liaoning, China. He grew up in mainland China and served in the People’s Liberation Army in his teens for five years. After leaving the army, he worked for three years at a railroad company in a remote northeastern city, Jiamusi, and then went to college in Harbin, majoring in English. He has published in English ten novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a book of essays, and a biography of Li Bai. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ha Jin is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in English and Creative Writing at Boston University, and he has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His writing has been translated into more than thirty languages. Ha Jin’s novel The Woman Back from Moscow was published by Other Press in 2023.

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Tochi Onyebuchi – Racebook

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook review and information of the content of essays, memoir and a personal history of the Internet by the American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer. Grove Atlantic will publish the new Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore novel, on October 21, 2025. 

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook reviews

  • “We are in the best, most absolute trouble, y’all, because Tochi Onyebuchi writes as well as he understands the internet, which means he writes as well as humans run from accountable desire. Racebook is absolutely singular in the history of book-making, and the love shown to Black folks and our internet here is as textured as anything Morrison made. We are in trouble, the best, most uprooting trouble, and I am thankful.” (Kiese Laymon, bestselling author of Long Division and Heavy)
  • “Starkly original, provocative and brilliantly executed, Racebook warrants our undivided attention. Onyebuchi is a sage observer of this fractured moment and among the internet’s keenest interlocutors.”(Jelani Cobb, author of Three or More is a Riot and New Yorker Staff Writer)
  • “Beginning with the adulation of Black cosplayers seizing physical and intellectual properties long coded as white spaces, [Onyebuchi] writes a memoir that contemplates his life online . . . There is personal history throughout, but the essays are global reflections on internet culture more than traditional memoir. Onyebuchi captures several universal moments of a generation growing up online but pushes the narrative further to encompass how it intersected with his offline world.” (Library Journal)

Tochi Onyebuchi Racebook

Racebook

A Personal History of the Internet

  • Author: Tochi Onyebuchi (United States)
  • Book type: essays. memoir
  • Publisher: Grove Atlantic
  • Released: 21 October 2025
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00 /
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book by Tochi Onyebuchi

When Tochi Onyebuchi realized his acclaimed science fiction and fantasy career had been centrally preoccupied with race, it prompted him to consider his responsibilities as a Black writer in the internet age. In brilliantly crafted essays, Onyebuchi excavates the internet of the late 1990s and early 2000s, tracing his online persona back to its origins to explore how both evolved in the ensuing decades. Brimming with voracious curiosity and razor-sharp wit, Racebook is a penetrating meditation on how identity and race are forged in the crucible of being online.

Beginning with the current moment when everything is a matter of dispute, back to Web 1.0’s promises of greater equality and a bright digital future, Onyebuchi deftly examines internet culture and its role in shaping our perception of ourselves, our world, and the potential realities we can envision. From the ever-changing nature of personal writing and free expression, to gaming, manga, fandom, and virtual reality, Racebook considers the internet alongside works of literature both classic and new, asking if our vision for what is possible has really broadened. And given the inequities Black people still face, on and off the page, does the internet only amplify our failures of imagination?

An original investigation of race through the lens of the modern internet age and an affecting journey into the heart of community online, Racebook argues for recognizing the individual behind the binary code that shapes our digital lives. As Onyebuchi asks, “Is this a race book or is it not? Is it either-or? Can it be both-and? Can I?”

Tochi Onyebuchi was born October 4, 1987 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist and author of Goliath, Riot Baby, the Beasts Made of Night series, and the War Girls series. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His nonfiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has appeared in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places. He has earned degrees from Yale University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia Law School, and the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He currently resides in Connecticut.

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Brandon Taylor – Minor Black Figures

Brandon Taylor Minor Black Figures review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Riverhead Books will publish the new Brandon Taylor novel, on October 14, 2025. 

Brandon Taylor Minor Black Figures review

  • “Taylor’s most accomplished novel – a sustained, idiosyncratic portrait of an artist.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “Brandon Taylor is a literary superstar … Taylor’s third novel [is] a smart and soulful exploration set in the world of art (both contemporary and historical). The book deftly explores race and sexuality, religion and community, and the way love can change a life.” (The Boston Globe)
  • “A meditative, illuminating portrait of friendship and competition, belief systems and the connections between us all.” (People)
  • “Dazzling … a poetic meditation on Black art, friendship, young love and intimacy.” (USA Today)

Brandon Taylor Minor Black Figures

Minor Black Figures

  • Author: Brandon Taylor (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • Released: 14 October 2025
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Format: hardcover / paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 39.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new novel by Brandon Taylor

The story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity.

New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.

After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retreats to a bar in the West Village where he meets Keating, a former seminarian. Over the long summer, as the two get to know each another, they talk and argue about God, sex, and art.

Meanwhile, at his job working for an art restorer, Wyeth begins to investigate the life and career of a forgotten, minor black artist. His search yields potential answers to questions that Wyeth is only now beginning to ask about what it means to be a black artist making black art amid the mess and beauty of life itself.

As he did so brilliantly in the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and the bestselling The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor brings alive a captivating set of characters, this time at work and at play in the competitive art world. Minor Black Figures is a vividly etched portrait, both sweeping and tender, of friendship, creativity, belief, and the deep connections among them.

Brandon Taylor is born June 1, 1989 in Prattville, Alabama. He  the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He lives in New York City.

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Jay McInerney – See You on the Other Side

Jay McInerney See You on the Other Side review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Knopf will publish the Jay McInerney novel, on April 14, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Jay McInerney See You ont the Other Side reviews

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Jay McInerney See You on the Other Side

See You on the Other Side

  • Author: Jay McInerney (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • To be released: April 14, 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Jay McInerney novel

Once again brilliantly combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us the stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting final volume in the tetralogy charting the marriage of Russell and Corrinne Calloway, now in their sixties, against the backdrop of various crises that have bedeviled our society in the past forty years.

The celebration of the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Russell Calloway’s best friend, Washington Lee—the least likely monogamist of his acquaintance somehow having become over the years a model husband and father—at the Odeon in the Spring of 2020 sparks an at once funny and moving autumnal reckoning with mortality as the specter of the Covid-19 virus spreads. In this moment of unprecedented upheaval—frantic and fraught real-time response, piercing personal and political impact—the Calloways find themselves and their marriage tested in ways they could never have anticipated as fatal consequences ensue.

Jay McInerney was born January 13, 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of eight novels, two collections of short stories, and three collections of essays on wine. His latest book, Bright, Precious Days, was published in 2016. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.

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Steven J. Zipperstein – Philip Roth biografie

Steven J. Zipperstein Philip Roth biografie recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het boek over de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de nieuwe Philip Roth biografie. Het boek is geschreven door Steven J. Zipperstein. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Steven J. Zipperstein Philip Roth biografie recensie en review

  • “Steven Zipperstein’s appreciation of Philip Roth is literary biography at its best. Acute and original judgments of Roth’s written worlds come embraided with revelatory portrayals of the worlds Roth inhabited, scrutinized, and provoked, and of Roth himself, solemn and hilarious, voraciously curious, a boundless sensual spirit riven by his craft.” (Sean Wilentz)
  • “This is one of the fairest and finest literary biographies I have read, with the emphasis on literary. Zipperstein does Philip Roth and his life’s work more than justice. He has produced a book that is a work of literature itself. Not every writer is what Roth called (and was called) ‘a writer’s writer.’ And not every scribe who undertakes to write a major life is truly a writer’s biographer. Zipperstein is one.” (Judith Thurman)

Steven J. Zipperstein Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Strung by Life

  • Auteur: Steven J. Zipperstein (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 14 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Philip Roth door Steven J. Zipperstein

A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life.

In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), one of America’s most celebrated writers. Born in Newark, New Jersey—where his short stories and books were often set—Roth wrote with ambition and awareness of what was required to produce great literature. No writer was more dedicated to his craft, even as he was rubbing shoulders with the Kennedys and engaging in a spate of famous and infamous romances. And yet, as much as Roth wrote about sex and self, he viewed himself as socially withdrawn, living much like an “unchaste monk” (his words).

Zipperstein explores the unprecedented range of Roth’s work—from “Goodbye, Columbus” and Portnoy’s Complaint to the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Pastoral and The Plot Against America. Drawing on extensive archival materials and over one hundred interviews, including conversations with Roth about his life and work, Zipperstein provides an intimate and insightful look at one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers, placing his work in the context of his obsessions, as well as American Jewishness, freedom, and sexuality.

Steven J. Zipperstein is born in 1950. He is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing and Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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