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In Stay True (Doubleday, Sept.), New Yorker staff writer Hsu recounts his experience growing up in 1990s California as the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and the personal reckoning that came after the death of a close friend.

Glass, the pseudonym of Christi Daugherty (the YA Night School thrillers), introduces a novice British spy, Emma Makepeace, in Alias Emma (Bantam, Aug.).

In Winter Work, set in Berlin just after the wall comes down, change is the most frightening enemy.

Writing as Allison Montclair, defense attorney, librettist, and novelist Gordon provides another murder for the proprietors of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau to solve in The Unkempt Woman (Minotaur, July).

In An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Random House, July), journalist Yong challenges readers to imagine the sensory worlds of animals.

The winner of the 2021 BookLife Prize in nonfiction tackles mental health issues among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

The author of The Gospel of Wellness (Holt, Sept.) spoke with PW about gender, the commodification of health, and America’s long history of snake oil salespeople.

In The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron, July), journalist Lemire examines the roots and repercussions of Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.

In The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron, July), journalist Lemire examines the roots and repercussions of Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.

MacArthur Fellow Kelly Lytle Hernández, author of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton), spoke with PW about the book, the absence of adequate historical education on U.S.-Mexican relations in America, and more.