Happy Friday, PW Picks subscribers! This week, my colleagues recommend books that either confront crisis directly or consider the vertigo of living during turbulent times. We've got a sci-fi thriller set centuries after Earth's climate collapse, a punchy nonfiction polemic about trying to forestall that collapse, and a sprawling art-world novel that takes place partly during the peak of the Covid pandemic.
Elsewhere, we catch up with bestseller Mitch Albom about his new novel, discuss Taylor Swift and the power of nightmares with suspense writer Chevy Stevens, and take an illustrated trip through the history of Black resistance with cartoonist Ben Passmore.
Happy reading!
—Conner Reed
Starred Reviews Releasing Next WeekCheck out all the books to receive starred PW reviews that are hitting shelves next week. more
Mitch Albom Loves LoveIn his latest novel, Albom explores true love and the downside of second chances. more
Chevy Stevens’s Worst-Case ScenarioFor her new thriller, the bestselling novelist found inspiration in her real-life fears, anxieties, and nightmares. more
Kirsten Miller Takes on Women’s WorkThe bestseller wants to effect social change through fiction—and wake women up to their witchy powers. more
Radical Time Warp: PW Talks to Ben PassmoreIn Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance, the Ignatz Award winner sends his cartoon avatar time traveling through Black history. more
All in This Together: PW Talks with Lev A.C. RosenQueer San Francisco PI Evander Mills returns home to L.A. for a hardboiled adventure involving motorcycle gangs and the Mattachine Society in the 1950s-set Mirage City. more
The King Must DieBy Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga)
As a big fan of Ashing-Giwa's debut, The Splinter in the Sky, I'm excited to dive into her sophomore novel. It's a timely dystopian science-fantasy set centuries after humanity abandoned a climate change-ravaged Earth for a new planet—which is now also rapidly hurtling toward climate collapse as its autocratic government does nothing to course correct. Against this devastating backdrop, an unlikely heroine joins a revolution. —Phoebe Cramer, SFF, horror, and romance reviews editor
The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too LateBy Wim Carton and Andreas Malm (Verso)
Climate scholars Carton and Malm follow up 2024’s Overshoot with a scorching critique of proposals to geoengineer solutions to the climate crisis. They demonstrate how plans to use technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce solar radiation come with great risks and encourage fossil fuel use to continue. Their message is stark: “Nothing can save us other than an avalanche in the prevailing order.” It's urgent and enlightening. —Marisa Charpentier, science and pop culture reviews editor
By Brandon Taylor (Riverhead)
Taylor is one of the smartest and craftiest depicters of our current social realities. Over three novels and a story collection—each marked by their acute psychological realism—his characters grapple with class, race, and sexuality as they seek fulfillment on their own terms. His latest and longest book is one of those baggy novels that you’ll want to stick with for its deep and sustained ideas, in this case about the nature of work and the shallow identity politics of the art world. —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor
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Alchemised
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The Secret of Secrets
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The Primal of Blood and Bone: A Blood and Ash Novel
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Poems & Prayers
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From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure
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Awake: A Memoir
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One Dark Window (Deluxe Limited Hardcover Edition) (Special)
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