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Up Late
Faber & Faber

Up Late

Nick Laird

This collection meets collapsing social and political systems, loss, and memory with a precise but flexible voice. Around a sequence on a father's death, it opens outward into loneliness, friendship, and the unease of everyday life.

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Verso Books

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller

These “very funny-deep dives into the lives of the most dastardly queer people in history” offer a passionate argument for rethinking gay politics beyond identity (Vogue). What can we learn from the homosexual villains, failures, and baddies of our past?

Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music
Knopf

Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music

Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music.

To Shape a Dragon's Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit
Del Rey

To Shape a Dragon's Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit

Moniquill Blackgoose

In a world where dragons have nearly vanished, an Indigenous girl named Anequs bonds with a hatchling and is thrust into a colonizer-run school. Coming-of-age and social critique advance with the same force as the story confronts cultural inheritance and the violence of schooling.

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Fitzcarraldo Editions

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Ian Penman

This book reframes the work and mythology of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder through fragments of criticism and recollection. It goes beyond film history, allowing the critic's own memory and sensibility to give the portrait of Fassbinder greater depth.

Some Desperate Glory
Tor Books

Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh

On a space station built from the last scraps of humanity, Kyr has been raised for revenge, only to confront the lies of her society and the reality of the people around her. The novel combines the momentum of military science fiction with a story of deprogramming and self-discovery.