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What We’re Excited to Read This Fall
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THERE ARE MORE than a
few “big books” coming out
this fall.

Don DeLillo and Marilynne
Robinson both have forthcoming
novels, and Barack Obama
has the first of a two-volume
memoir coming in November.

Emma Cline, whose 2016 debut
novel “The Girls” spent three
months atop The New York
Times bestseller list and is in the
process of being adapted into a
movie, has a new book on its way
to a shelf near you.

Jerry Seinfeld is publishing
a book of his favorite material,
and Cazzie David, the daughter
of Seinfeld’s most famous
comedy partner, is releasing a
book of essays, too.

Below, we offer some new and
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exciting books that have a little
less buzz than those mentioned
above, written by (mostly)
Jewish authors, in order by their
release dates. At the very least,
the authors won’t be Nobel Peace
Prize winners or involved in the
creation of “Seinfeld.”
‘Transcendent Kingdom’
Yaa Gyasi (Sept. 1)
If Gyasi’s wonderful 2016 novel
“Homegoing” is any indication,
she has a keen sense for the poetry
of coincidence; that book dealt
with historical rhymes and echoes
through generations of a Ghanian
family, split in two. “Transcendent
Kingdom” narrows the aperture to
one Ghanian family in Alabama,
as Gifty, a neuroscience graduate
student, tries to make sense of the
suffering around her in any way
that she can.

‘Just Us: An American
Conversation’ Claudia Rankine (Sept. 8)
Graywolf Press is known for
publishing genre-mixing uncat-
egorizable books, and “Just Us”
fits into that, well, category.

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Rankine, a poet, combines
poetry, photos and essays to
create a swirling, intimate world
of arguments and observations
about America, white supremacy
and the way forward for us all.

‘Three Rings: A Tale of
Exile, Narrative and Fate’
Daniel Mendelsohn (Sept. 8)
Like fellow New York-based
magazine stalwart John McPhee,
Mendelsohn can make anything
he writes about interesting.

Both are at their best when
they’re writing about their pet
subjects and, for Mendelsohn,
that’s the intersections of Jewish
literature, classical literature,
exile, his own writing and his
family. Reading “Three Rings” is
reading Mendelsohn when he’s
very much at home.

‘Golem Girl: A Memoir’
Riva Lehrer (Oct. 6)
“I am a Golem,” Riva Lehrer
writes in her new illustrated
memoir. “My body was built by
human hands.” Exploring the
nature of disability, concepts of
“monstrosity” and art, Lehrer,
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‘The Last Interview’
Eshkol Nevo, translated by
Sondra Silverston (Oct. 13)
“The Last Interview” is Nevo’s
fifth book translated from
Hebrew, handled each time by
Silverston. In this newest novel,
a famous Israeli author, fed up
with his own typical interview
answers, decides to go all the
way in a new direction, griping
and pleading and wondering
through an interview that
who was born with spina reveals himself, in every way.

bifida, tries to make sense of
how she was made and what ‘Memorial: A Novel’
she’s made, in return.

Bryan Washington (Oct. 27)
Benson and Mike’s relation-
ship has been winding down
‘Missionaries: A Novel’
for some time now, but the
Phil Klay (Oct. 6)
Klay’s first novel follows unexpected death of Mike’s
his debut story collection, father throws everything into
“Redeployment,” which won a fascinating flux.

the National Book Award for
Fiction in 2014. His subject ‘To Be a Man: Stories’
then was the tangled mess of Nicole Krauss (Nov. 3)
life for soldiers home from
When the author of “The
Iraq; Klay, a veteran of that History of Love” releases her
ongoing war, turns his atten- first short story collection, and
tion to modern warfare in the advertisements tell you that
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you read that book.

Adam Kirsch (Oct. 6)
Adam Kirsch is a Jewish ‘I Want to Be Where the
Exponent all-star for good Normal People Are’
reason: His writing about the life Rachel Bloom (Nov. 17)
of the Jewish mind and word is
Comedian memoirs tends to
as lively and thoughtful as it gets. follow a certain pattern that’s not
Even if you’ve already read “Who really conducive to an enjoyable
Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?: reading experience. There are
And Other Essays,” or “The jokes, some stories about adver-
People and the Books: 18 Classics sity and “Can you believe they
of Jewish Literature,” this new let me write a book?” But Bloom
effort is surely worth your time.

is not a typical comedian and, in
the last few years, experimenta-
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Rumaan Alam (Oct. 6)
from the likes of Jenny Slate and
This book has already been Abbi Jacobson (fellow Jewish
optioned for a movie version comedians). It is to the reader’s
that is set to star Denzel benefit that Bloom is not, as the
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