Articles by C. Max Magee
May 21, 2013
Tuesday New Release Day: Hosseini, Nesbø, Tarttelin, Tolkien, Packer 0
New this week: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini; The Redeemer, a new Harry Hole novel from Jo Nesbø (see our interview); and Abigail Tarttelin’s debut novel Golden Boy. Also out: The Fall of Arthur, J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic poem, and George Packer’s The Unwinding. Bonus Links: You can now subscribe to listings of literary [...]
May 14, 2013
Tuesday New Release Day: Adichie, Knausgaard, Brown 0
New in fiction this week is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. The second volume of Karl Knausgaard’s My Struggle hits American shores (read about Volume One). Oh yeah, and that Dan Brown guy has a book out. Bonus Links: You can now subscribe to listings of literary new releases in your feed reader with this RSS [...]
May 7, 2013
Tuesday New Release Day: Malcolm, Percy, Drury, Barrett, Kertész 0
New! This! Week! Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm, Red Moon by Benjamin Percy, Pacific by Tom Drury, Love Is Power, or Something Like That by A. Igoni Barrett (read his piece at The Millions), and Dossier K, a memoir from Novel winner Imre Kertész. Bonus Links: You can now [...]
May 1, 2013
The Millions Top Ten: April 2013 0
Some popular titles are holding steady on the top of our list, while a unique anthology lands in the Hall of Fame, and a new collection from a young master of the form debuts.
April 30, 2013
Tuesday New Release Day: Messud, Ausubel, Hill, Sjón, Powers 0
New this week: The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud, A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel, NOS4A2 by Joe Hill, and three newly translated books from by Icelandic author Sjón: The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, and From the Mouth of the Whale. New in paperback is The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers. Bonus [...]
April 23, 2013
Tuesday New Release Day: Pollan, Sedaris, Stelter, Currey, Thompson, Stothard, Rutherfurd, Wecker, Riley 0
The headliners this week are on the non-fiction side: Michael Pollan’s Cooked and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris. Also new in non-fiction: Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV by the Times’ Brian Stelter and Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. In fiction: The Humanity Project [...]