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Sara Levine – The Hitch

Sara Levine The Hitch review and information of the content of the novel by the American writer. Roxane Gay Books will publish the new Sara Levine novel, on January 13, 2026. 

Sara Levine The Hitch reviews

  • “I was slobberingly, tail-waggingly delighted to read The Hitch—which is one of the most wildly comedic and unhinged novels I have ever encountered, while at the same time also being deeply relatable and strangely emotionally accurate. Not only was I laughing on almost every page, I was reading parts of it aloud to anybody around me who would listen. Give this book a trophy. It’s perfect.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author)
  • “A hilarious, madcap novel about our human obsession with getting life “right,” and how the best laid plans can go astray, especially when the dark haunted soul of a corgi gets involved. This is the book I’ll recommend to people as a test of their sense of humor: if they laugh at the corgi, the yogurt crisis, the hero who cannot recognize the obvious even when it’s chewing on her pant leg, then I’ll know we’re destined to be friends.” (Nathan Hill, author)
  • “Sara Levine’s long-awaited follow-up to cult classic Treasure Island!!! does not disappoint: we find in The Hitch a plot as dark and concise as those of Hilary Mantel’s early novels, but propelled by Levine’s signature prose, sharp and hilarious. In this pitch-perfect comedy of manners, Rose, equal parts Thomas Bernhard, Elaine Benes, and health guru, might be too well-informed to make an informed decision, but seeing her try is a true delight. A relentlessly funny novel about loneliness.” (Camille Bordas)

Sara Levine The Hitch

The Hitch

  • Author: Sara Levine (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
  • To be released: 13 January 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the novel by Sara Levine

From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world.

Rose Cutler defines herself by her exacting standards. As an anti-racist, Jewish secular feminist eco-warrior, she is convinced she knows the right way to do everything, including parent her six-year-old nephew Nathan. When Rose offers to look after him while his parents visit Mexico for a week, her brother and sister-in-law reluctantly agree, provided she understands the rules—routine, bedtime, homework—and doesn’t overstep. But when Rose’s Newfoundland attacks and kills a corgi at the park, Nathan starts acting strangely: barking, overeating, talking to himself. Rose mistakes this behavior as repressed grief over the corgi’s death, but Nathan insists he isn’t grieving, and the dog isn’t dead. Her soul leaped into his body, and now she’s living inside him. Now Rose must banish the corgi from her nephew before the week ends and his parents return to collect their child.

With the ferocious absurdity of Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch and the dark, brazen humor of Melissa Broder’s Death Valley, The Hitch is a tantalizingly bizarre novel about loneliness, bad boundaries, and the ill-fated strategy of micromanaging everything and everyone around you.

Sara Levine is the author of the novel Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her essays, stories, and aphorisms have appeared in various magazines including The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, Sonora Review, and others. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Laura Dave – The First Time I Saw Him

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him review and information of the content of the new crime novel by the American author. Scribner will publish the new Laura Dave novel, on january 6, 2026. It’s the sequel of the novel The Last Thing He Told Me. 

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him review

  • “Equally action-packed and deeply felt, this sequel is every bit as incredible as The Last Thing He Told Me. Clear your schedule because once you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down. I loved everything about it.” (Mary Kubica)
  • “An essential sequel that ties up loose threads while providing a thrilling ride across continents.” (Kirkus)

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him

The First Time I Saw Him

  • Author: Laura Dave (United States)
  • Book type: American crime novel
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Released: 6 January 2026
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the crime novel by Laura Dave

Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me.

How far would you go for a second chance?

Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them.

But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again.

Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety—and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance. A gripping, rich, and deeply moving novel about the power of forgiveness.

Laura Dave was born 18 July 1977 in New York City. She is the author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and The Night We Lost him. Her novels have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into thirty-eight languages. The Last Thing He Told Me was the Goodreads Mystery & Thriller of the Year for 2021 and is now a series on Apple TV+, cocreated by Laura. She resides in Santa Monica, California.

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New Journalism boeken en schrijvers

New Journalism boeken en schrijvers. Wat wordt bedoeld met New Journalism en wat zijn de beste boeken in het genre? Welke auteurs, schrijfsters en schrijvers zijn bekend geworden door de New Journalism boeken? Wanneer en waar is deze stroming in de literatuur en journalistiek ontstaan?

New Journalism boeken en schrijvers

New Journalism is een literaire stroming die is ontstaan aan het einde van de jaren zestig en begin van de jaren zeventig van de twintigste eeuw. Het is een vorm van journalistiek schrijven waarin gekozen wordt voor een meer literaire toon en aanpak. Auteurs die zich van deze literaire journalistieke vorm bedienden pretendeerden dan ook om voorbij de feiten op zoek te gaan naar een diepere waarheid en de verbeelding een belangrijke, soms zelfs dominante rol te geven. Zelf noemden de auteurs hun boeken vaak non-fictie romans.

De Amerikaanse schrijver Tom Wolfe wordt algemeen beschouwd als de grondlegger en theoreticus van het genre. Hij legde in essays vast waaraan een goed New Journalism boek aan moet voldoen. Het boek bevat volledige dialogen, nauwkeurige plaatsaanduidingen, beschrijft gebeurtenissen vanuit het perspectief van unieke personen en bevat persoonlijke details.

Wat zijn de bekendste New Journalism boeken?

Het genre was internationaal vooral bekend door Amerikaanse auteurs. Naast de bedenker en naamgever Tom Wolfe, hebben onder andere Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson en John Hersey furore gemaakt met boeken in het genre. In de loop van de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw nam de aandacht voor New Journalism af alhoewel er tot op de dag van vandaag boeken en lange artikelen verschijnen die duidelijke kenmerken van het genre vertonen.

Truman Capote In Cold Blood recensie en reviewTruman Capote – In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences

true crime non-fictie roman uit 1966
Nederlandse vertaling: In koelen bloede
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote’s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved…lees verder >

Norman Mailer Miami and the Siege of Chicago Book from 1968 First EditionNorman Mailer – Miami and the Siege of Chicago

An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 

non-fictie roman uit 1968
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson’s ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey, the city of Chicago erupts. Antiwar protesters fill the streets and the police run amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike, all broadcast on live television, and captured in these pages by one of America’s fiercest intellects.

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Lionel Shriver – A Better Life

Lionel Shriver A Better Life review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Harper Collins will publish the Lionel Shriver novel on February 10, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Lionel Shriver A Better Life reviews

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Lionel Shriver A Better Life

A Better Life

  • Author: Lionel Shriver (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • To be released: February 10, 2026
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 27.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Lionel Shriver novel

In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant—who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be.

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his “hovercraft repose.”

As the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico’s sisters, while finding her way into Gloria’s heart and even, briefly, Nico’s. But as Martine’s disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother’s altruism and the “migrant crisis” in general—and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself.

Based loosely on a program a New York City mayor floated but did not initiate, A Better Life is Lionel Shriver at her best: smart, funny, and sensitive to the moral nuances of perhaps the most divisive issue of our times.

Lionel Shriver was born on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. She has published many novels, a collection of essays, and a column in the Spectator since 2017, and her journalism has been featured in publications including, The Guardian, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Portugal and Brooklyn, New York.

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Rebecca Kauffman – The Reservation

Rebecca Kauffman The Reservation review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Counterpoint Press will publish novel by Rebecca Kauffmann, on February 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Rebecca Kauffman The Reservation reviews

  • “A restaurant-based mystery reveals more than just the culprit in this sprightly drama … A tender tale that seeks the ‘immeasurable satisfaction’ of an ordinary job well-done. In what is largely a light and funny novel, Kauffman nevertheless touches some of the deeper mysteries of the human condition: desire, longing, and an inchoate sense that there is something larger than our circumstances which binds us all together. A book that proves light touches can leave lasting impressions.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “One thing I love about fiction is that it can take you anywhere. For instance, an entire novel can take off when a whole bunch of steak are stolen from a restaurant refrigerator. That this relatively small theft can change the trajectory of people’s lives. With The Reservation, her sixth novel, Rebecca Kauffman has proven herself to be a master of documenting ordinary life—revealing how complicated, rich, puny, funny, beautiful, and absolutely bittersweet it can be.” (Marcy Dermansky, author of Hot Air)

Rebecca Kauffman The Reservation

The Reservation

  • Author: Rebecca Kauffman (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Counterpoint Press
  • To be released: February 24, 2026
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00 / $ 14.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Rebecca Kauffmann novel

The Reservation explores the loves and labors of an ensemble of more than a dozen restaurant workers as they strive to get a perfect meal to the table.

On the morning of the most important booking in the long history of the celebrated restaurant, Aunt Orsa’s erupts into chaos with the discovery that twenty-two rib eye steaks have been stolen. Hers is the most august of fine-dining establishments in this Midwestern college town, and tonight Orsa is set to host a large party honoring a very special guest—a bestselling author of national renown.

And what’s up with the recent spate of online reviews, from insulting to frankly terrible? Is Orsa, who wants only to be loved, being sabotaged on several fronts? No one is above suspicion, not the Mennonite baker nor the tattooed hard-ass chef de cuisine. Could the culprit be among the servers, or even the inexperienced undergrad working as hostess?

Who aside from Rebecca Kauffman—with her talent for portraying such abundant and sympathetic characters—could write with the wit and energy needed to launch all these various individuals whirling through their days with such complex and interactive choreography?

Like the works of the mystery guest, The Reservation is a dynamic and captivating story that shows us what it takes to get a beautiful meal to the table.

Rebecca Kauffmann received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the author of Another Place You’ve Never Been, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Gunners, which received the Premio Tribùk dei Librai, The House on Fripp Island, Chorus, and most recently, I’ll Come to You. Originally from rural northeastern Ohio, Kauffman now lives in Virginia.

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Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans

Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans review, recensie en informatie van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1925. Op 18 november 2025 verschijnt bij Dalkey Archive Press de heruitgave van de roman uit 1925 van Gertrude Stein, de schrijfster uit de Verenigde Staten. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans review en recensie

  • “This sober, tender-hearted, very searching history of a family’s progress, comprehends in its picture of life which is distinctively American, a psychology which is universal.” (Marianne Moore, Dial)
  • “Indubitably the most monumental fiction to be given since the publication of Ulysses.” (Saturday Review of Literature)
  • “The Making of Americans is the first announcement of what would be Stein’s greatest legacy–to reclaim the world of the nineteenth-century woman from such weird, smutty interlopers as Flaubert and, later, Joyce, and transform it into the most exalted ground of human potentiality available to us… It is monumental, horribly flawed, and a joy to read if you just give up and drown in it.” (Matthew Stadler, The Stranger)

Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans

  • Auteur: Gertrude Stein (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1925
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Reeks: Dalkey Archive Essentials
  • Verschijnt: 18 november 2025
  • Omvang: 716 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 19,95 / € 8,95
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1925 van Gertrude Stein

In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.

Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874 in Allegheny, near Pittsburgh  in Pennsylvania,  in to a prosperous German-Jewish The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein novel from 1925 first editionfamily. She was educated in France and the United States, worked under the pioneering psychologist William James, and later studied medicine. With her brother Leo she was an important patron of the arts, acquiring works by many contemporary artists, most famously Picasso, while her home became a popular meeting place for writers and painters from Matisse to Hemingway. Her books include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. She died on 27 July 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France at the age of 72 and was burried on the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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Eshani Surya – Ravishing

Eshani Surya Ravishing review and information of the content of the debut novel by the Indian American writer. Grove Atlantic will publish the first Eshani Surya novel, on November 11, 2025. 

Eshani Surya Ravishing review

  • “Ravishing is a marvel of a debut that hums with the ache of becoming—a place where even the mirror is a battleground and every shimmer of beauty carries the weight of longing: for love, for a face we can call our own, and for a world less cruel. Surya expertly reminds us that even though the body remembers grief and abandonment, there can also be a chance to bloom.” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author)
  • “This debut is thoughtful in its handling of tricky themes of identity, belonging, and, perhaps most compellingly, the intersection of wellness culture and chronic illness. Surya handles this latter with unflinching—even discomfiting—clarity. A speculative take on the all-too-real rot at the heart of the beauty and wellness industry.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “How far will you go to keep running from yourself? Eshani Surya’s Ravishing takes this question to new heights, conjuring a dazzling dystopia even as it points a hard finger at our present. You will never look in the mirror the same way again.” (Mira Jacob, author)

Eshani Surya Ravishing

Ravising

  • Author: Eshani Surya (United States)
  • Book type: debut novel
  • Publisher: Grove Atlantic
  • Released: 11 November 2025
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 28.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the debut novel by Eshani Surya

A provocative, razor-sharp novel about two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a beauty tech company, Ravishing is an incisive portrait of a predatory industry and its dangerous ability to capitalize on our deepest insecurities. Full of heart and vulnerability, Eshani Surya’s dazzling debut shines a light on the dark enticements of wellness culture and the ill-fated pursuit of perfection.

For teenage Kashmira, it’s painful to look in the mirror; she has her father’s face, and every feature is a reminder of his abandonment. When a friend introduces her to Evolvoir, a beauty product that changes users’ features, Kashmira is quickly seduced by its ability to erase the triggers of her grief. Meanwhile, at Evolvoir corporate, Kashmira’s estranged brother Nikhil sees the product as an opportunity to make a difference, but is quickly mired in complicity as reports surface of severe side effects in some users. As Kashmira becomes more dependent on the escape the product offers, she is hospitalized with inexplicable symptoms and must negotiate the constraints of her new reality, while Nikhil uncovers a vicious truth that forces him to decide where his loyalties lie.

Deftly excavating the repercussions of living in white spaces, and fearlessly examining the realities of what it means to live with chronic illness,

Eshani Surya is a chronically ill South Asian writer living in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is a 2022 Asian Women Writer’s Workshop mentee, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient, and a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient. Ravishing is her first book.

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore – Terry Dactyl

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author and activist. Coffee House Press will publish the new Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore novel, on November 11, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl review

  • “By turns perceptive, touching, and occasionally funny, [Terry Dactyl] is a deep dive into what it means to live authentically as a queer progressive.” (Eleanor Bader, The Indypendent)
  • “Terry Dactyl made me cry and made me laugh out loud. It has all the pain and joy, struggle and delight of the lives of those who color outside the lines. It’s a book about family and friendship and love and knowing when and how to change your life.” (McKenzie Wark, author of Love and Money, Sex and Death)
  • “Full of glitter and grit … Sycamore’s prose is fluid and funny, tender and propulsive, as she brings us along on Terry’s journey of love, loss, and finding herself.” (Rebecca Hopman, Booklist)

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Terry Dactyl

Terry Dactyl

  • Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (United States)
  • Book type: American novel, feminist novel
  • Publisher: Coffee House Press
  • Released: November 11, 2025
  • Length: 305 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: € 15,95
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the new book by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19.

Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world.

Twenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again.

In propulsive, intoxicating prose, Terry Dactyl traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is born May 31, 1973 in Washington, D.C. She is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of seven books, and the editor of six anthologies. Her most recent title, Touching the Art, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her previous title, The Freezer Door, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Her new novel is Terry Dactyl.

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Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters

Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters romans en boeken. Welke bekende Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfster zijn er? Wat zijn de beste romans en andere boeken die zij geschreven hebben? Welke nieuwe romans en andere boeken zijn er recent verschenen?

Afro-Amerikaanse auteurs nieuwe romans en boeken in 2025

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Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensieSpelen in het duister

Witheid in de literaire verbeelding

  • Auteur: Toni Morrison (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: literaire non-fictie
  • Origineel: Playing in the Dark (1993)
  • Uitgever: Letterwerk
  • Reeks: Filosofische Bibliotheek Diotima
  • Verschijnt: 14 november 2025
  • Omvang: 200 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: Spelen in het duister is een van de weinige non-fictiewerken die Toni Morrison schreef. In dit boek maakt ze een messcherpe analyse van de verborgen, maar cruciale rol die Afro-Amerikanen spelen in de literaire verbeelding van wit Amerika. Ze spreekt over ‘Afrikanisme’: Afrikanen en Afro-Amerikanen vormden de vaak impliciete achtergrond van onvrijheid, waartegen de Amerikaanse idealen van autonomie en zelfredzaamheid konden worden afgezet (door witte schrijvers)…lees verder >

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel recensieDe hemel & aarde winkel

  • Auteur: James McBride (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Kees Mollema
  • Uitgever: Meridiaan Uitgevers
  • Verschijnt: 9 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 460 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: De Hemel & Aarde Winkel begint in 1972, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, als bij graafwerkzaamheden een skelet en wat voorwerpen, zoals een mezoeze, worden aangetroffen – wat de politie ertoe brengt de enige joodse inwoner van het stadje te ondervragen. Het onderzoek wordt echter bemoeilijkt wanneer de plaats delict wordt weggevaagd door orkaan Agnes. McBride keert vervolgens terug naar het Pottstown van de jaren twintig en dertig en beschrijft het leven van de inwoners van de overwegend arme zwarte en joodse wijk Chicken Hill…lees verder >

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories reviewThe Gilda Stories

  • Auteur: Jewelle Gomez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: futuristische roman uit 1991, slavernijroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang; 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Winnaar Lambda Award
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men’s clothing and seem to know others’ innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to ‘share the blood’ and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women’s suffrage groups…lees verder >

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice reviewThis Is Not a Small Voice

Selected Poems

  • Auteur: Sonia Sanchez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez’s poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world, including Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe. Whether it’s her iconic haiku, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchez’s luminous verse thrums with a profound generosity and an international consciousness, rendering all of life’s agony and ecstasy…lees verder >

Rob Franklin Great Black Hope reviewGreat Black Hope

  • Auteur: Rob Franklin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 17 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: It’s just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate Elle, the daughter of a famous soul singer, and he’s still reeling from the tabloid spectacle—as well as lingering questions around how well he really knew his closest friend. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta, only to buckle under the weight of expectations from his family of doctors and lawyers and their history in America…lees verder >

Afro-Amerikaanse auteurs nieuwe romans en boeken in 2024

Onderstaande boeken zijn ingedeeld op datum van verschijnen. Bovenaan staan de nieuwste boeken.

My Pisces Heart

A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents

  • Jennifer Neal My Pisces Heart review en recensieAuteur: Jennifer Neal (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Capapult
  • Verschijnt: 22 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / eboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Inhoud boek: Jennifer Neal was born in the United States to a family that moved continuously for their own survival and well-being—from the Great Migration to the twenty-first century. As an adult, she has continued to travel the world as a Black queer woman, across two decades and four countries—from Japan to the US and then Australia to Germany, where she has settled for now…lees verder >

Sky Full of Elephants

  • Auteur: Cebo Campbell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie en reviewUitgever: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family…lees verder >

Een van ons

  • Auteur: Richard Wright (Verenigde Staten)
  • Richard Wright Een van ons recensieSoort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Native Son (1940)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Paul Bruijn, Molly van Gelder
  • Uitgever: Van Oorschot
  • Verschijnt: 23 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 488 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 29.50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: In de iconische roman Een van ons (Native Son) toont Richard Wright wat racisme met een mens doet, en hoezeer het een maatschappij ontwricht. De twintigjarige Afro-Amerikaanse Bigger Thomas, afkomstig uit een achterstandswijk in Chicago, pleegt een moord op een wit meisje uit een gegoed milieu, en slaat op de vlucht…lees verder >

Een zoon van Amerika

  • Auteur: James Baldwin (Verenigde Staten)
  • James Baldwin Een zoon van Amerika recensieSoort boek: essays, verhalen
  • Origineel: Notes of a Native Son (1955)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Eefje Bosch, Manik Sarkar
  • Uitgever: De Geus
  • Verschijnt: 30 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: James Baldwins non-fictiedebuut verscheen in 1955, toen hij dertig was en vestigde zijn naam als onontkoombaar denker. De tien cultuurkritische en autobiografische es­says zijn geschreven in de jaren veertig en vijftig en tonen een land waarin de maatschappelijke verhoudingen voorzichtig beginnen te schuiven…lees verder >

Giovanni’s kamer

  • Auteur: James Baldwin (Verenigde Staten)
  • James Baldwin Giovanni’s kamer recensieSoort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Giovanni’s Room (1956)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Eefje Bosch, Manik Sarkar
  • Uitgever: De Geus
  • Verschijnt: 30 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 21,50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: In het Parijs van de jaren vijftig valt de jonge Amerikaan David voor de Italiaanse barman Giovanni. Als Davids verloofde Hella terugkeert van een reis raakt hij verscheurd tussen zijn verlangens en de conventionele moraal. Ondertussen neemt het leven van Giovanni een vreselijke wending…lees verder >

Helemaal prima

  • Auteur: Cecilia Rabess (Verenigde Staten)
  • Cecilia Rabess Helemaal primaSoort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Everything’s Fine (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Adiëlle Westercappel
  • Uitgever: Atlas Contact
  • Verschijnt: 28 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Jess en Josh zijn in ongeveer alle opzichten elkaars tegenpolen. Zij is Zwart, progressief, van bescheiden komaf, en gewend om zichzelf voortdurend te moeten bewijzen in een witte (mannen)wereld. Hij is wit, conservatief, en zeer bevoorrecht. Wanneer ze collega’s worden bij een gerenommeerde New Yorkse investeringsbank, duurt het niet lang voordat hun aanvankelijk vijandige verhouding omslaat in vriendschap – en uiteindelijk in een onwaarschijnlijke, allesverslindende liefdesaffaire…lees verder >

James

  • Auteur: Percival Everett (Verenigde Staten)
  • Percival Everett JamesSoort boek: Amerikaanse slavernijroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Doubleday
  • Verschijnt: 19 maart 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
  • Inhoud roman: When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond…lees verder >

Waar we gaan is nacht

  • Auteur: Tracey Rose Peyton (Verenigde Staten)
  • Tracey Rose Peyton Waar we gaan is nacht recensieSoort boek: historische roman, slavernijroman
  • Origineel: Night Wherever We Go (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Linda Broeder
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt:  22 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 23,99 / € 12,99 / € 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Texas, 1852. Zes vrouwen wonen en werken op een noodlijdende plantage. ’s Nachts glippen ze uit hun hut en komen met andere tot slaaf gemaakten in het bos bij elkaar. Hun eigenaren – die zij de Lucy’s noemen, naar Lucifer – hebben namelijk plannen om de plantage winstgevend te maken, die verregaande gevolgen voor hen zullen hebben…lees verder >

De zaaier

  • Auteur: Octavia E. Butler (Verenigde Staten)
  • Octavia Butler De zaaier roman uit 1993 recensieSoort boek: dystopische roman
  • Origineel: Parable of the Sower (1993)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Reshma Jagernath, Ine Willems
  • Uitgever: Signatuur
  • Verschijnt: 13 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 14,99 / € 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud roman: Wanneer wereldwijde klimaatverandering en economische crises in 2024 tot sociale chaos leiden, wordt Californië een plek vol gevaar: van ernstig watertekort tot massa’s drugsverslaafde maniakken die alles zullen doen om nog een dag te overleven. De vijftienjarige Lauren Olamina woont met haar vader, in een afgeschermde community, beschermd tegen de anarchie buiten de muren. Lauren lijdt aan hyperempathie, een slopende gevoeligheid voor de emoties van anderen. Maar als de community onveilig wordt, moet Lauren vluchten…lees verder >

Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters romans en boeken

Op deze pagina is een overzicht te vinden van Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers en schrijfsters. Bovendien is er aandacht voor hun beste romans en andere boeken. Ook is er een overzicht van nieuwe romans en andere boeken opgenomen.

Maya Angelou

geboren 4 april 1928
overleden 28 mei 2014
memoireschrijfster, dichteres, essayiste en activiste

James Baldwin Als Beale Street kon praten Beste Boeken uit 1974James Baldwin

geboren 2 augustus 1924
overleden 1 december 1987
romanschrijver, essayist en burgerrechtenactivist

Brit Bennett De vervlogen helft RecensieBrit Bennett

geboren 1990
romanschrijfster

Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Talents Roman uit 1998Octavia E. Buter

geboren op 22 juni 1947
geboorteplaats: Pasadena, Californië
overleden op 25 februari 2006
sterfplaats: Seattle, Washington
leeftijd: 58 jaar

Ralph Ellison

geboren 1 maart 1914
overleden 16 april 1994
romanschrijver

Paul Laurence Dunbar

geboren 27 juni 1872 –
overleden 9 februari 1906)
roman- en toneelschrijver, dichter

Alex Haley

genoren 11 augustus 1921
overleden 10 februari 1992
romanschrijver

Chester Himes Boeken en InformatieChester Himes

geboren 29 juli 1909
overleden 12 november 1984)
misdaadromanschrijver

Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter first edition form 1930Langston Hughes

geboren op 1 februari 1901
geboorteplaats: Joplin, Missouri
overleden op 22 mei 1967
sterfplaats: New York City

Tayari Jones

geboren 30 november 1970
roman- en verhalenschrijfster

William M. Kelley Uit de maat RecensieWilliam Melvin Kelley

geboren 1 november 1937
overleden 1 februari 2017)
roman- en verhalenschrijver

Nella Larsen Drijfzand Schutkleur RecensieNella Larsen

geboren 13 april 1891
overleden 30 maart 1964)
romanschrijfster

Kiese Laymon Long Division RecensieKiese Laymon

geboren op 15 augustus 1974
geboorteplaats: Jackson, Mississippi
romanschrijver

Audre Lorde Sister Outsider review en recensieAudre Lorde

schrijfster, professor en activiste
geboren op 17 november 1934
geboorteplaats: New York City
overleden op 17 november 1992
sterplaats: Saint Croix, Amerikaanse Maagdeneilanden
leeftijd: 58 jaar
doodsoorzaak: kanker

Bernice L. McFadden Sugar review en recensieBernice L. McFadden

geboren op 26 september 1965
geboorteplaats: Brooklyn, New York

Claude McKay Home to Harlem review en recensieClaude McKay

geboren op 15 september 1890
geboorteplaats: Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
overleden op 22 mei 1948
sterfplaats: Chicago, Illinois
leeftijd: 57 jaar
doodsoorzaak: hartaanval

  • Home to Harlem (roman, 1928)
    Waardering: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Toni Morrison

Afro-Amerikaanse romanschrijfster
Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur 1993
geboren op 18 februari 1931
geboorteplaats: Lorain, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
overleden op 5 augustus 2019
sterfplaats: New York City
leeftijd: 88 jaar

  • Beloved (roman, 1987)
    waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
    Nederlandse vertaling: Beminde
Walter Mosley

geboren 12 januari 1952
thrillerschrijver

Ann Petry De straat RecensieAnn Petry

geboren 12 oktober 1908
overleden 28 april 1997)
roman- en verhalenschrijfster

  • The Narrows (roman, 1953)
  • The Street (roman, 1946)
    Waardering: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
    Nederlands: De straat (2020)
Fran Ross Oreo Afro-Amerikaanse roman uit 1974 RecensieFran Ross

geboren 25 juni 1935 in Philadelphia
overleden 17 september 1985 in New York
leeftijd: 50 jaar
romanschrijfster

  • Oreo (roman, 1974)
Wallace Thurman

geboren op 16 augustus 1902
geboorteplaats: Salt Lake City, Utah
overleden op 22 december 1934
sterfplaats: New York City
leeftijd: 32 jaar
doodsoorzaak: tuberculose

Alice Walker De kleur paars RecensieAlice Walker

geboren 9 februari 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia
roman- en verhalenschrijfster, essayiste

Colson Whitehead De ondergrondse spoorweg Recensie RomanColson Whitehead

geboren 6 november 1969
romanschrijver

John Edgar Wideman

geboren 14 juni 1941 in Washington, D.C.
roman- en verhalenschrijver

Richard Wright Black Boy Afro-Amerikaanse memoires uit 1945Richard Wright

geboren 4 september 1908 in Rxie, Mississippi
overleden 28 november 1960 in Parijs, Frankrijk
romanschrijver

John Edgar Wideman

geboren 14 juni 1941
roman- en verhalenschrijver

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American Novel, Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman

Anika Jade Levy – Flat Earth

Anika Jade Levy Flat Earth review and information of the content of the first novel by the American author. Catapult will publish the new Anika Jade Levy novel, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Anika Jade Levy Flat Earth review

  • “Anika Jade Levy’s Flat Earth exudes ennui and sadness, each chapter prefaced by a mordant precis of bizarre fads and news stories to set against its heroine’s apathy and dysfunction . . . There is a glum kind of humour woven into the despair, and the hopelessness is rendered strangely hypnotic in crisp, pitiless prose.” (Suzi Feay, Financial Times)
  • “Reading Flat Earth feels like opening your best friend’s diary and finding out what she really thinks about you, and then falling even more in love with her—realizing that love is something darker and more consuming than you’d let yourself believe. Flat Earth is fierce, hungry, hurting, on fire. The prose in this book makes other books feel like dull knives. This is a book about friendship and imperfect care—about the ways we love not despite but through our brokenness, because it’s what we have. I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured—wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever.” (Leslie Jamison, author)
  • “In a city that eternally produces young, hot, smart, special girls with curatorial-level taste and then discards them when they’ve aged out of the proverbial pleated skirt, even the most delusional woman’s sense of uniqueness and superiority can begin to falter. Unless they manage to produce something aesthetically or culturally relevant that garners attention, fame, and money, these girls fear they may be on the chopping block next—if not today, whenever their amphetamine and Wellbutrin prescriptions run dry.” (Jen George)
  • “Brilliant … In Avery’s narrative voice, Levy has achieved a fantastic yet paradoxical triumph: It’s a voice that manages to carry intimations as acerbic as they are full of longing, as strident as they are vulnerable, and as tart as they are unguarded . . . With her own hyperarticulate, stimulant-driven style, Avery (and Levy behind her) runs into her own life, helter-skelter, as if it were a door she’d forgotten to open. You’ll want to keep reading just to see what she says next. Levy’s utterly original sendup of contemporary life seems destined to become a cult classic.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Anika Jade Levy Flat Earth

Flat Earth

  • Author: Anika Jade Levy (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Catapult
  • Released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: € 26.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Anika Jade Levy novel

A young woman struggles with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend in this ruthless portrait of the New York art scene in which relationships are transactional, men are vampiric, and women have limited time to trade on their youth, beauty, and talent—it’s Renata Adler’s Speedboat for the Adderall generation.

Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation, Avery takes a job at a right-wing dating app. The “white-paper” she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merges with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself over the course of the novel.

Meanwhile, her best friend, Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy Southern family, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature documentary. Frances’s triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a final tailspin, pushing her to make a series of devastating decisions.

In this generational portrait, attention spans are at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high. Flat Earth is a story of coming of age in America, a novel about commodification, conspiracy theories, mimetic desire, and the difficulties of female friendship that’s as sharp and sardonic as it is heartbreaking.

Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine and teaches in the Writing program at Pratt Institute. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in Interview, Magazine, Nylon, Flaunt, Grand, and elsewhere. Flat Earth is her first book.

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