Fresh off my second viewing of Death Becomes Her on Broadway, I'm highlighting another tale of aesthetic improvement gone wrong: The Dorians, a grisly horror novel by Craig Davidson, writing as Nick Cutter, about five elderly Canadians who subject themselves to a youth-restoring experiment on a remote island. If you can believe it, not everything goes as planned. See below for my profile of Davidson, in which we also discuss the time he took steroids as research for a boxing novel.
Among the editor's picks this week, my colleague Meg Lemke is recommending Opioids & Organs, a similarly gory affair about cadavers and organ donation. Elsewhere, we've rounded up noteworthy new books for AAPI Heritage Month. As always, happy reading!
—Conner Reed
Starred Reviews Releasing Next WeekCheck out all the books to receive starred PW reviews that are hitting shelves next week.
11 New Books to Read This AAPI Heritage MonthFrom a graphic memoir about biracial identity to a speculative drama about a false missile warning, we're rounding up some of our favorite spring books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors. more
Body Talk with Craig DavidsonThe author’s latest horror novel as Nick Cutter takes a grotesque look at aging and mortality. more
How Military Schools Have Shaped American Masculinity: PW Talks with Jasper CravenThe journalist’s God Forgives, Brothers Don’t spotlights a brutal strain of American masculinity that dates back to the country’s founding. more
Seductive Recipes Inspired by the Books You Love to Read
Romance novels and food go together like Romeo and Juliet, and A Romance Reader’s Cookbook cheekily celebrates the best of both. Inspired by beloved novels, characters, plots, and tropes, its 60 recipes are playful, easy to make, and swooningly delicious.
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary UndergroundBy Zayd Ayers Dohrn (Norton)
The Weather Underground returned to the popular consciousness last fall, when Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another centered a militant leftist group inspired by it. In this memoir, Ayers Dohrn details growing up with parents who were deeply embedded in the Weather Underground in the 1970s, leading to a life on the run and a complicated relationship with radical politics. There are nuggets in here to fascinate just about any reader. —Conner Reed, mystery and memoir reviews editor
By Ali Smith (Pantheon)
There’s always something restorative about reading Smith’s free-associative and lightly fantastical fiction, with its curiosity and skepticism toward the effects of technology on our lives and its uncompromising views into ripped-from-the-headlines atrocities (“Can anything be too on the nose politically these days?” a character asks in this novel). The narrator, an underemployed British woman, despairs from witnessing the shelling of children on her screens, a clear reference to the Gaza war, and she uses Google as a means to address abstract, fuzzy, and metaphysical subjects, such as “what to do if you inadvertently raise a ghost.” For the reader, the results might not always be profound, but they’re certainly clarifying. —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor
By Arizona O'Neill (Drawn & Quartered)
I'm perturbed (in a good way) by this provocative graphic narrative, full of prettily drawn scenes where eyeballs appear in egg cartons and severed feet show up in a shoe store window. O’Neill traces how she became morbidly obsessed with what happened to her dead father’s organs after she agreed to their donation, raising compelling questions about profits and ethics in the medical industrial complex in the process. Frankenstein’s monster and the Cheshire cat make cameos. —Meg Lemke, comics and graphic novels reviews editor
with K.F. Breene
K.F. Breene, who has written more than 40 books in nearly a dozen series since self-publishing her first novel in 2013, will hit another milestone in her publishing journey in August. Her fantasy romance novel Born in Fire will be released by AETHON: Vault, marking the first time that Breene’s work will be available in brick-and-mortar locations. (Sponsored) MORE »
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Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story (Expanded Edition): A Mother's Guided Journal to Share Her Life & Her Love (Revised)
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Oh, the Places You'll Go!
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26 Beauties: A Women's Murder Club Thriller
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