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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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Ron Rindo – Life, and Death, and Giants

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. St. Martin’s Press will publish the new Ron Rindo novel, on october 11, 2025. 

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants review

  • “Life, and Death, and Giants is an intriguing and alluring novel from beginning to end. The events are startling, sad, amusing, invigorating, and informative. Reading it is like meeting a family that you never knew existed and becoming close friends in a few weeks. Highly recommended.” (Jane Smiley)
  • “A rare novel … Unbearably moving, yet hopeful and transcendent in all the best ways. Just read it. Lose yourself in it. Be changed by it.” (Jennie Godfrey)
  • “A small-town novel as magical and moral as a tall tale.” (Stewart O’Nan)

Ron Rindo Life, and Death, and Giants

Life, and Death, and Giants

  • Author: Ron Rindo (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
  • To be released: 11 October 2025
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize:
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book by Ron Rindo

A remarkable child transforms a small rural community – and, soon, the world.

In Lakota, Wisconsin, a young, unmarried Amish woman births a miraculous, eighteen-pound baby, and no one in the community knows what to make of the boy.

Raised by his brother on a struggling farm, Gabriel Fisher walks at eight months, communicates with animals and possesses astonishing athletic abilities. When his brother dies, Gabriel is taken in by his devout grandparents and, for a time, he disappears into the anonymity of Amish life.

But then, aged seventeen and nearly eight feet tall, Gabriel is spotted working in a hayfield by the local football coach and his life changes for ever.

In Life, and Death, and Giants, Gabriel’s extraordinary, timeless story is told by those whose lives are transformed by him: the veterinarian who delivers him and becomes his mentor; his grandmother, who is troubled by a deep void in her faith; the salty bar owner who acts as a bridge between the Amish and English communities in Lakota; and the football coach who tries to counsel Gabriel as his fame explodes, with consequences that no one could have anticipated.

Ron Rindo is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. He has published one previous novel, Breathing Lake Superior, and three short story collections. He lives in Pickett, Wisconsin.

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James McBride – De hemel & aarde winkel

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman. Op 9 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Meridiaan Uitgevers de Nederlandse vertaling van The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, de roman van James McBride. de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave.

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel recensie

  • “Dit is zo’n roman die een deel van je wordt. Het is een geweldig boek. Elk personage is rijk, elk detail is rijk. Ik kan dit boek van harte aanbevelen. Hij is een geweldige auteur en ik denk dat dit zijn beste werk is.” (Harlan Coben)
  • “Een echte McBride: hij schuwt geen gewaagde uitspraken over de nationale catastrofes van ras en xenofobie, en hij geeft ons altijd een lepeltje suiker om de pijn te verzachten. De kers op de taart zijn McBrides scherpe dialogen en moordmysterie-waardige plotwendingen; de grote persoonlijkheden en grotere verhaallijnen van zijn personages; zijn gevatte, snelle humor; en proza ​​zo wendbaar en uitbundig dat het lezen van hem voelt als een jazzjamsessie … McBride lezen voelt gewoon goed – we worden getroost en vermaakt, en voorbereid op de harde lessen die hij ons ook leert.” (The Atlantic)
  • “Met dit verhaal legt McBride op briljante wijze een snel veranderend land vast, gezien door de ogen van de recent aangekomenen en de voormalige slaven… En door deze evocatie biedt McBride ons een grondige herinnering: tegen schijnbaar onmogelijke verwachtingen in, zelfs te midden van de meest kwaadaardige plannen van de mensheid, kunnen liefde, gemeenschap en actie ons redden.” (The New York Times Book Review)

James McBride De hemel & aarde winkel

De 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

Flaptekst van de roman van James McBride

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. Het joodse echtpaar Moshe en Chona Ludlow zijn eigenaar van een theater met danszaal, en van een kruidenierswinkel, De Hemel & Aarde Winkel. Een van de zwarte inwoners vraagt de Ludlows om een dove jongen, Dodo, te verbergen voor de autoriteiten die hem willen opnemen in een beruchte psychiatrische inrichting. De plaatselijke arts, lid van de Ku Klux Klan, heeft racistische, xenofobe motieven en wordt helaas door veel blanke inwoners gesteund in zijn beleid. De zwarte en joodse dorpsbewoners komen uiteindelijk in actie om de jongen te helpen.

Een favoriet boek van Barack Obama, inmiddels zo’n 1.500.000 exemplaren verkocht in Amerika, uitgeroepen als beste boek van het jaar door boekhandelsketen Barnes & Noble, Amazon, én de zelfstandige boekhandels — om maar wat aanbevelingen te noemen. Bovendien heeft de roman de National Book Award ontvangen.

James McBride (is geboren op 11 september 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. Hij studeerde compositie aan het Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio en journalistiek aan de Columbia University. Zijn werk is verschenen in Essence, Rolling Stone en The New York Times. Spike Lee verfilmde in 2008 McBride’s debuutroman Miracle at St. Anna, het script schreef McBride. McBride is een bekroond auteur, muzikant en scenarioschrijver. Zijn baanbrekende memoir uit 1996, The Color of Water, De kleur van water, stond meer dan twee jaar op de bestsellerlijst van The New York Times. In 2002 verscheen Miracle at St. Anna, die in het Nederlands is vertaald als Het wonder van Santa Anna. Ook schreef hij Kill ‘Em and Leave, vertaald als James Brown op zoek naar de Godfather of Soul. Zijn roman The Good Lord Bird uit 2013 werd in het Nederlands vertaald als Lieveheersvogel. In 2015 ontving hij de National Humanities Medal van president Obama ‘voor het menselijk maken van de complexiteit van het debat over ras in Amerika’.

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Eric Puchner – Dream State

Eric Puchner Dream State recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 8 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos de Nederlandse vertaling van Dream State, de roman van Eric Puchner. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Eric Puchner Dream State recensie

  • “Wonderschoon. Met een van de meest ontroerende en bevredigende laatste hoofdstukken die ik in jaren heb gelezen.” (The Washington Post)
  • “Een frisse blik op het huwelijk en een prachtige, urgente overdenking van de grote gevolgen van kleine keuzes.” (The New York Times)
  • “Een schitterend panoramisch verhaal over familiebanden… Puchner vertelt zijn verhaal zo meeslepend, zo boeiend, met zoveel warmte en humor, dat je pas wanneer je het boek weglegt, de genialiteit van wat hij heeft gedaan kunt waarderen.” (Guardian)

Eric Puchner Dream State

Dream State

  • Auteur: Eric Puchner (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Origineel: Dream State (2025)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Peter Abelsen
  • Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 24,99 / € 13,99 / € 16,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Eric Puchner

Cece arriveert in Montana bij het huis van haar toekomstige schoonfamilie om haar en Charlies bruiloft voor te bereiden. De bruidegom heeft zijn beste vriend, Garrett, een nurkse, getraumatiseerde man, als ceremoniemeester gevraagd. Omdat Charlie later komt zijn Cece en Garrett de eerste dagen op elkaar aangewezen. Bijna ongemerkt legt Garrett zijn norse masker af en Cece begint steeds meer te twijfelen aan haar toekomst. De gebeurtenissen van die zomer hebben niet alleen verstrekkende gevolgen voor henzelf, maar werpen ook een lange schaduw over het leven van hun kinderen.

Vijftig jaar omspannend en tegen de achtergrond van een opwarmend Montana, onderzoekt Dream State wat het betekent om te leven met gemaakte fouten uit het verleden, zowel die van onszelf als die van generaties voor ons.

Eric Puchner is geboren in 1970. Hij auteur en universitair hoofddocent aan Johns Hopkins University. Zijn essays verschenen o.a. in GQ, Granta, McSweeney’s. Hij ontving een Award in Literature van de American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dream State is zijn meest recente roman.

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Thomas Pynchon – Shadow Ticket

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 7 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de nieuwe roman van Thomas Pynchon de schrijver uit de Verenigde Staten. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket review en recensie

  • “Pynchon’s gift has always been his ability to render America in its full strangeness … The book is full of exuberance. Pynchon’s sentences themselves are so alive, so pleasurable … The fact that Shadow Ticket is brilliant and prescient isn’t a surprise; that it exudes so much joy and sensuousness is.” (Megan Nolan, Daily Telegraph)
  • “Brilliant fun … Rollicking … Pynchon’s prose is still as balletically dazzling as the trick shot Lew teaches Hicks… It’s not just that no one else writes quite like Pynchon; it’s that no one even tries.” (The Washington Post)
  • “Pynchon’s livewire prose hops from subject to subject, joins the dots and makes patterns … The novel sets out with a song in its heart and mischievous spring in its step, but it edges into darkness.” (Guardian)
  • “A 1930s detective tale with a sucker punch ending . . . Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance – and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” (Los Angeles Times)

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket

Shadow Ticket

  • Auteur: Thomas Pynchon (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, misdaadroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
  • Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 11,99 / £ 14,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekenwereld

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Thomas Pynchon

A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape – from the bestselling, award-winning American author Thomas Pynchon.

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement – and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing.

By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with.

Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

Thomas Pynchon is born on 8 May 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. Pynchon is often noted for his complex works of postmodern fiction, which are often characterized by dense Vineland Thomas Pynchon novel from 1990 first editionreferences to history, popular culture, literature, music, science, and mathematics, as well as by humor and explorations of paranoia. He is the author of the novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge. Also he wrote Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, published in 1984. He received the National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow in 1974.

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John Irving – Queen Esther Novel

John Irving Queen Esther Novel review and information of the content of the new book by the American author. Simon & Schuster will publish the new John Irving novel, on November 6, 2025. The Dutch translation of the novel is also titled Queen Esther, 

John Irving Queen Esther novel review

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John Irving Queen Esther novel

Queen Esther

  • Author: John Irving (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • To be released: 6 November 2025
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 16.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book by John Irving

After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award–winning film, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther—a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism.

Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board the ship to Portland, Maine; her mother is murdered by anti-Semites in Portland. Dr. Larch knows it won’t be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; in fact, he won’t find any family who’ll adopt her.

When Esther is fourteen, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family with a history of providing foster care for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren’t Jewish, but they despise anti-Semitism. Esther’s gratitude for the Winslows is unending; even as she retraces her roots back to Vienna, she never stops loving and protecting the Winslows. In the final chapter, set in Jerusalem in 1981, Esther Nacht is seventy-six.

John Irving’s sixteenth novel is a testament to his enduring ability to weave complex characters and intricate narratives that challenge and captivate. Queen Esther is not just a story of survival but a profound exploration of identity, belonging, and the enduring impact of history on our personal lives showcasing why Irving remains one of the world’s most beloved, provocative, and entertaining authors—a storyteller of our time and for all time.

The Dutch translation of the novel is also titled Queen Esther, and wil be published on November 4, 2025.

John Irving was born on 2 March 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.

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Salman Rushdie – The Eleventh Hour

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour review and information of the content of the new with stories by the Indian born English-American author. Jonathan Cape will publish the new Ron Rindo novel, on November 4, 2025. 

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour reviews

  • “More than 40 years after Midnight’s Children, there is still nobody who spins a yarn quite like Salman Rushdie.” (Spectator)
  • “Rushdie has not just enlarged literature’s capacities, he has expanded the world’s imaginative possibilities.” (The Times)

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour

  • Author: Salman Rushdie (England, United States)
  • Book type: stories
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • Released: 4 November 2025
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 / £ 9.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new book with stories by Salman Rushdie

If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.

Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight’s Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English university college, an undead academic asks a lonely student to avenge his former tormentor.

These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through.

Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment with our lives if we don’t know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

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