Regional Theater by Thomas Grattan

From Thomas Grattan, PEN/Hemingway Award, LA Times Seidenbaum Award, and Joyce Carol Oates Prize nominee and author of The Recent East and In Tongues, a decades-spanning, polyphonic novel following the cast and crew of a fictional theater production, beginning when the musical's early 1990s Saratoga Springs debut is derailed by its main star snapping a tendon in her foot, and progressing through the AIDS crisis and into 2010s New York as the musical is revived and as its main players orbit, obsess over, and reconnect with one another.

The Life of the Party by hannah baer

From hannah baer, clinical psychologist, contributor to n+1 and Artforum, and author of the memoir Trans Girl Suicide Museum, a treatise on and a loving ode to throwing parties, blending instructions, memoir, and cultural history, and ultimately making a case for how gathering together can radically reconfigure our relationships to the world and to each other

The Last Feast by Jesse Katz

From Jesse Katz, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and James Beard Award winner, the first biography of food critic Jonathan Gold, the only food writer to have won the Pulitzer Prize, whose columns chronicling the hidden gems of multicultural Los Angeles established a new kind of food writing and a new understanding of the city, exploring the ups and downs of Gold's eccentric personal and professional life and his continued legacy for culinary adventurers across the world.

Fear of a Female Genius by Lindsay Zoladz

From Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times critic and cultural critic, a feminist history of the idea of artistic genius and a critical journey through the lives and work of many female artists, writers, and musicians who transformed male-dominated fields, including Joni Mitchell, Yoko Ono, Elaine May, Hilma af Klint, and Mary Shelley, as well as several previously unsung female artists, all of whom inspire and argument for a new and more expansive understanding of genius itself.

Unbound by Legacy Russell

From Legacy Russell, author of Glitch Feminism and Black Meme, and chief curator of The Kitchen, a multi-generational story centered on the life and legacy of the author's great-grandfather, Nolle Smith, a revolutionary Black cowboy who moved his family to Hawaii in the early 20th century, exploring the radical possibility, and reconsideration, of the idea of the cowboy, and navigating the sweep of American history, colonialism, racial passing, artmaking, activism, and the little known Black-Hawaiian diaspora through one family's insistence on self-determination.

How to Live by Lucy Jakub

From former editor at the New York Review of Books, an exploration of the life and work of the renowned animation director, Studio Ghibli cofounder, and cultural icon Hayao Miyazaki, weaving together history, criticism, and philosophy to provide a new understanding of Miyazaki's beloved films and the lessons they hold for children and adults alike.

Play the Tape by Rembert Browne

From Rembert Browne, former writer-at-large at New York magazine and staff writer at Grantland, a cultural history tracing the last 20 years of the American experiment—from Black culture and domestic politics to an Internet that suddenly made everything possible—alongside a generation's coming-of-age and the author's own stories of success, setback, and survival, to interrogate how we got to this unprecedented point, so the past can inform our future.

Gemma by Catherine Lacey

From Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X, a novel following a retiring professor packing up her office amid political strife on campus as she dwells on a torrid, failed friendship with a mercurial and brilliant young poet who once gifted the professor a novel that she hopes can explain the poet's sudden disappearance.

Tether by Chia-Chia Lin

From Chia-Chia Lin, author of The Unpassing and finalist for the 2019 NBCC John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a novel following a grandmother, her daughter-in-law, and the child caught between them, set in a society built to ward off catastrophic health threats, where every choice between risk and caution carries the weight of survival—and the illicit allure of freedom.

Give Me Some Credit by Michael Waters

From Michael Waters, author of The Other Olympians and contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, a history of credit in America, from the shadowy origins of the modern credit bureau to the rich history of American social movements fighting against the system, in the process illuminating issues of socioeconomic, gender, and racial inequality in the modern economy.

The Creative Independent: A Guide to Making Things by Brandon Stosuy

From Brandon Stosuy, cofounder and editor-in-chief of The Creative Independent, a guide to unlocking one's creativity, narrated through quotes from TCI's 2,500 interviews with artists discussing their processes, from Bjork and Chloe Sevigny to Philip Glass and Hilton Als.