Stephen King, Yiyun Li, Scandalous academics… 27 new paperbacks out this month.
This article highlights 27 new paperback releases across fiction and nonfiction arriving in May, featuring works by established authors like Stephen King, Yiyun Li, and Susan Choi as well as emerging voices. The selections cover a wide range of themes including grief, identity, parenting, technology, and social issues, offering readers diverse options for reflection and engagement. The tone emphasizes the role of literature as a source of comfort and insight during challenging times.
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May is here, and with it comes the promise of warmer and brighter weather, the promise of summer’s suns. And we could certainly use that promise right now in an America and world at large increasingly defined by senseless violence and erasure, a world in which we need things to relight our lanterns—and one of those, of course, is art. With that in mind, I have new books to recommend you check out this May, some comforting, some cathartic, some charting new courses for us to consider voyaging through. Below, you’ll find twenty-seven new paperbacks in fiction and nonfiction to check out, each out this May. You’ll find work by beloved authors, from Stephen King, Yiyun Li, and Susan Choi to Molly-Jong Fast and Sam Kean, as well as delightful debuts and new work from promising up-and-comers.
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