A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, Gary Shteyngart is one of the most beloved and viral essayists of our day. Often poignant and always funny, The Sensualist  collects his most memorable pieces, showcasing why The New York Times  describes Gary as “one of his generation’s most exhilarating writers.” In THE SENSUALIST,  Gary chases capybaras, the world’s largest (and cutest) rodent. He joins 7500 fellow passengers on earth’s biggest cruise ship. He schleps around New York City in search of the best martini. He visits wool merchants and tailors in pursuit of the perfect blue suit. He travels to Mexico City, Rome, Naples, Bombay, and Dubai. He sits on his porch in upstate New York. To Gary, a sensualist believes the details of one’s life are always worth savoring and happiness can be found from looking around. A sensualist isn’t a glutton or an aesthete (and certainly not a snob), but someone who embraces the sublime—and the absurd.The Sensualist takes us across town and across the world, showing us how to appreciate the joys of life, no matter what. 

Jess Row has drawn acclaim for charting the intricacies and absurdities of race in America in his novels Your Face in Mine and The New Earth and in his essay collection White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination. Now, in his first collection of short stories in more than a decade, he evokes white America—specifically liberal, educated white Northeasterners—awkwardly (and at times hilariously) poised on the precipice of cultural and global collapse. From summer backyard parties in Princeton to post-apocalyptic Vermont, from a camp for disadvantaged youth in Boston Harbor to a deranged visit to John Cheever’s Connecticut, STORYKNIFE is a funny, troubling, indelible look at a culture whose rituals and expectations are dissolving into thin air.

Harvey Sachs is an acclaimed scholar of music history. His most recent book, SCHOENBERG: Why He Matters (Norton, 2023) was one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year. His latest book will take on Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971), who, along with Schoenberg, was seen during his lifetime as one of the leading figures in twentieth century European art music. A combination of biography (professional and personal life) with descriptive, non-technical analyses of all of Stravinsky’s major works and several minor ones, this book will provide the author’s own interpretations of the significant events in Stravinsky’s life and of the explosively inventive music that he created, in terms comprehensible to any curious music-lover. 

In his new collection of essays: ON BEING SHORT: MEN, MASCULINITY, AND OTHER DISASTERS, Jess Row examines the paradoxical, problematic, dysfunctional lives of American men in the 21st century. The essays will weave together Row’s own experience and social observations into a larger narrative of how American masculinity has fragmented and devolved since the 1970s. The book will be published by Graywolf.