2024 Summer/Fall Books: A Biased Preview, Part 2

July

Prisms, Veils: A Book of Fables, David Bentley Hart

—I’m more excited about DBH’s other book of the summer (see below, under August), but this story collection has the best blurb I’ve ever seen, from Michael Robbins: “David Bentley Hart reminds one of Borges, but a Borges who has read Borges and found him to have been rather too influenced by Pierre Menard”

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Claudia Rankine

—This is the republication of a Bush-era work by the conceptual poet

Madoff: The Final Word, Richard Behar

—I forgot all about that asshole

Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture, Jonathan Lethem

—It’s easy to forget, but Lethem is serious about visual art as well as all the other stuff

Best of the Rust Belt, ed. Anne Trubek

—I’m in this! So are a bunch of other people you like