New Books
The year is coming to a close, but there are still new books yet to anticipate. Here are a few November and December releases that have caught our collective eye, plus one you can preorder for January.
Julia Kornberg
Berlin Atomized
Trans. Jack Rockwell & Julia Kornberg
Astra House
This debut novel, an end-of-the-world story, opens in the Buenos Aires of the early 2000s but progresses into a future in which the Goldstein family is scattered among different countries as the now-separated, downwardly mobile siblings search for one another. Julia Kornberg’s essay “Once” appeared in WLT’s May 2024 issue.
Mavis Gallant
The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Ed. Garth Risk Hallberg
NYRB
With more than thirty never-before-published stories by this master of the form, NYRB’s new collection will bring all of Mavis Gallant’s fiction into print.
Omar Khalifah
Sand-Catcher
Trans. Barbara Romaine
Coffee House
In this novel, four young Palestinian journalists working at a Jordanian newspaper are sent to profile one of the last living Nakba witnesses, but the task becomes complicated when he wants to be left alone. Omar Khalifah’s debut novel is a reflection on Palestinian identity.
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Kitchen Hymns
Copper Canyon
This new collection by Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama is structured like a ghost mass. Three poems by the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound appeared in our May 2024 issue. Arriving in January 2025, Kitchen Hymns looks like a great way to begin a new year of reading.
