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12/04/2025

Amanda Vaill toured the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, pored over state library documents and more for her newest book.

12/02/2025

THE SISTERS by Jonas Hassen Khemiri has been named one of the The New York Times Books 10 Best Books of 2025! 🎉

“THE SISTERS zooms forward, powered by hurtling prose and a literary magic trick: Khemiri tells the story in increments of time that grow increasingly briefer, ending on one minute in the future that offers long-awaited grace.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/books/review/best-books-2025.html

12/02/2025

DARING TO BE FREE is a revelatory history of enslaved people’s resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond. https://bit.ly/48Lt47X

THE BALLAD OF THE LAST GUEST is a novel about a man who returns home, only to find that home is now unrecognizable, by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke. https://bit.ly/4ixTTzX

11/26/2025

Vote for BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY by Nicholas Boggs for Best History & Biography in the final round of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards! Voting closes on 11/30.

Cast your vote here: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-history-bio-books-2025

11/25/2025

The New York Times just shared their 100 Notable Books of 2025, and it includes seven FSG books! THE DOORMAN by Chris Pavone, THE SISTERS by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, THE SOUTH by Tash Aw, TRIP by Amie Barrodale, BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY by Nicholas Boggs, THE CONTAINMENT by Michelle Adams, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/books/notable-books.html

11/20/2025

Vote for our four titles in the 2025 Choice Awards! The first round of voting is open through November 23.

Cast your vote for:
📖 BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY by for Readers’ Favorite History & Biography
📖 THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by for Readers’ Favorite Memoir
📖 DOMINION by for Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel
📖 ENSH*TTIFICATION by Cory Doctorow for Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction

Cast your vote here: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2025

11/18/2025

EMPIRE OF OR**SM by Ellen Huet is a cautionary tale of s*x and salvation for the wellness generation: how or****ic meditation turned into a cult. https://bit.ly/4pgKKOk

THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY is the definitive collection of Seamus Heaney's poetry. Gathering his work in a single volume for the first time, it gives us the full arc of the Nobel laureate's long and varied career. https://bit.ly/47Z1dj1

11/11/2025

George Packer’s THE EMERGENCY is a gripping fable of imperial collapse that illuminates the crises of our times. https://bit.ly/47zK2FX

In Olivia Laing's hypnotic new novel, THE SILVER BOOK—set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975—art, power, desire, and illusion collide. https://bit.ly/43nzCqp

WHAT TO EAT NOW is a field guide to grocery shopping and a treatise on how to eat well and deliciously from Marion Nestle, America’s preeminent nutritionist. https://bit.ly/4hQmgZG

THE DREAM FACTORY is Daniel Swift’s riveting look at London’s first playhouse and how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, told through the people—actors, writers, builders, investors—who helped create the Theatre. https://bit.ly/4qUNrXw

11/10/2025

Don't miss Amanda Vaill and Megan Marshall in conversation about the , , and Pride and Pleasure at CUNY Graduate Center this Wednesday, November 12:

11/04/2025

A finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, PALAVER is finally here! This is a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from Bryan Washington. https://bit.ly/4oQtK0X

TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES by Jonathan Slaught is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. https://bit.ly/3JEAMal

INDIGNITY is Lea Ypi's exciting reimagining of the past, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, and the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. https://bit.ly/48UTBQS

ESTATE by Cynthia Zarin is a tight, compressed tour de force of a novel that sweeps across time and space—from New Guinea to word games, Italian cinema to communication theory—bringing to mind Annie Ernaux and Elena Ferrante. https://bit.ly/47mzWrT

11/03/2025

The first in a series of posts exploring letters written by the Schuyler sisters to each other from Pride and Pleasure. Follow along!

Sister Letters/1 (first in a series of posts exploring letters written by the Schuyler sisters to each other):

Today let's look at what the newlywed Elizabeth (then called Betsey) wrote to her younger sister Margaret (or Peggy) shortly after Betsey joined her new husband, Alexander Hamilton, at George Washington's headquarters at New Windsor, NY. “I am the happiest of Women,” she says. “My dear Hamilton is fonder of me every day." This isn't, as some writers have considered, a tepid description — far from it. In the 18th century "fond" meant "infatuated," or what Hamilton, in a PS to the same letter, called being "a fanatic in love." No wonder Betsey urges Peggy, "Get married, I charge you.... There is no possible felicity but in that state... I was much in want of it.” (Elizabeth Hamilton to Margareta Schuyler, January 1781, Hamilton Family Papers, Library of Congress)

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10/30/2025

COVER REVEAL! 🌊 A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Virginia Eubanks challenges readers to reconsider the networks of care that sustain our lives, reminding us that no one survives the wilderness alone.

A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING will be available on August 11, 2026. https://bit.ly/4hAFUJb

Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral Studio, jacket art by Giacomo Design