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New Books: January/February 2023

Education

Ungrading : why rating students undermines learning (and what to do instead) / edited by Susan D. Blum ; with a foreword by Alfie Kohn.

Fine Arts

The philosophy of modern song / Bob Dylan.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

I came as a shadow : an autobiography / John Thompson with Jesse Washington.

History

American republics : a continental history of the United States, 1783-1850 / Alan Taylor.

An environmental history of the Civil War / Judkin Browning & Timothy Silver.

Entertaining history : the Civil War in literature, film, and song / edited by Chris Mackowski.

Inca apocalypse : the Spanish conquest and the transformation of the Andean world / R. Alan Covey.

Vanguard : how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all / Martha S. Jones.

Language and Literature

The Beats : a literary history / Steven Belletto.

The only wonderful things : the creative partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis / Melissa J. Homestead.

Philip Roth : a counterlife / Ira Nadel.

The Pushcart Prize XLVII : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Math and Natural Sciences

Drought, flood, fire : how climate change contributes to catastrophes / Chris Funk, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Fuzz : when nature breaks the law / Mary Roach.

On the fringe : where science meets pseudoscience / Michael D. Gordin.

Nursing

Fighting the first wave : why the coronavirus was tackled so differently across the globe / Peter Baldwin.

Without compassion, there is no healthcare : leading with care in a technological age / edited by Brian D. Hodges, Gail Paech, and Jocelyn Bennett.

Religion and Philosophy

The Black church : this is our story, this is our song / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Social Sciences

The 9.9 percent : the new aristocracy that is entrenching inequality and warping our culture / Matthew Stewart.

Broke in America : seeing, understanding, and ending US poverty / Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox.

Dividing paradise : rural inequality and the diminishing American dream / Jennifer Sherman.

How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America / Heather Cox Richardson.

Liberalism and its discontents / Francis Fukuyama.

Nomad century : how climate migration will reshape our world / Gaia Vince.

Seek you : a journey through American loneliness / Kristen Radtke.

Who owns the wind? : climate crisis and the hope of renewable energy / David McDermott Hughes.

Why do we still have the electoral college? / Alexander Keyssar.

Why we act : turning bystanders into moral rebels / Catherine A. Sanderson.

Curriculum

Firekeeper's daughter / Angeline Boulley.

Fiction

The best short stories 2022 : the O. Henry Prize winners / guest editor: Valeria Luiselli ; series editor, Jenny Minton Quigley.

Demon Copperhead : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.

Lapvona / Ottessa Moshfegh.

Lessons / Ian McEwan.

The magician : a novel / Colm Tóibín.

Mary Toft: or, the rabbit queen / Dexter Palmer.

The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated with notes by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; foreword by Boris Fishman ; introduction by Richard Pevear.

Matrix / Lauren Groff.

Transcendent kingdom / Yaa Gyasi.

Trust exercise : a novel / Susan Choi.