Summer is officially here, and as the weather warms and our dreams of escapes to elsewhere begin seeming a bit more possible, I’m here to suggest new books to accompany you into June, whatever your plans may be. (And how surreal it feels, in a year that has felt so long already, that we are only now in June.)
Below, you’ll find a bevy of exciting paperback editions to check out, each coming out this month, from novels and collections to memoirs, new histories, and work that defies genre categorization altogether. The world may be too much, yes, but it’s always a bit more bearable with new things to read—and these fascinating, wide-ranging titles should help with just that, which tackle everything from boxing and the women of pop music to what pleasure means, what it means to take up space as a woman in the world, the reverberations of British imperialism, and much, much more. If you missed them in hardcover, or simply seek the quiet, sempiternal joy of opening up a paperback, you’ll love these.
Stay safe, as always, and add these to your ever-more-towering to-be-read piles!
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Lucas Schaefer, The Slip
