The New York Times featured VERY COLD PEOPLE by Sarah Manguso on a list of Editor’s Choice must-reads. They write: “The memoirist and essayist Manugso’s first novel is about Ruthie, who grows up in a small, perpetually snowy Massachusetts town…[She] writes poignantly of Ruthie’s faith in a maternal love that isn’t really there, and of her dawning comprehension of what might have made it impossible. ‘Manguso also writes poetry, and this is apparent in her fiction,’ our critic Alexandra Jacobs says. ‘Though dealing with life’s ugly, messy truths, her writing is compact and beautiful.’” Hogarth published the novel on February 8, 2022.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION by Laura Kipnis received a starred review from Booklist. Reviewer Carol Haggas writes: “By tapping into the Zoom-fueled zeitgeist, Kipnis brings an ironic perspective to this most intimate of subjects. Disarmingly honest, voyeuristically campy, Kipnis’ discussion of COVID-19-influenced coupledom is both witty and wise.” The New York Times also featured the book on a list of Editor’s Choice must-reads: “In her latest book, the critic, polemicist and professor Kipnis examines the state of romance in stuffy enclosures during the days of Covid…The book is ‘perfectly equidistant between riff and investigation,’ our critic Molly Young writes. ‘Kipnis launches provocations with the frequency of a tennis ball machine.’” Pantheon published the book on February 8, 2022.

Mary Kuryla of Lit Hub featured THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS by Hannah Lillith Assadi in her literary roundup of “Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature.” She writes: “In Assadi’s rendering of dementia, we are rewarded with a privileged view of a mother’s secrets and passions simply by virtue of what insists in the mind and what muddles. Can we be surprised that motherhood and its demands, for all its insistence, winds up in the muddle?” Riverhead Books published the novel on January 11, 2022.

Laura Kipnis’ LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION received a wave of positive press following its publication. Sophia Nguyen of The Washington Post writes: “Readers who crave that warm feeling of being taken into someone’s confidence will also find a lot to like in Laura Kipnis’ LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION… Kipnis’ intellectual restlessness is what makes her so fun to read.” David Mikics reviewed the book for Tablet, praising: “LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION is shot through with Kipnis’ ample comic talent. As a satirist and commiserator she has few equals these days.” Chicago Tribune featured the book in a Valentine’s Day column examining the difficulty of romantic commitments: “LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION [is] a new social study by Kipnis, longtime professor and bomb thrower (metaphorically) at Northwestern…Kipnis offers a cloistered world in which, at least, we recognize both, the painful and the enlightened.” Lastly, Kipnis sat down for interviews with Lit Hub, The Colin McEnroe Show, and The Unspeakable Podcast. Pantheon published the book on February 8, 2022.

Ms. Magazine featured Cleyvis Natera's forthcoming NERUDA ON THE PARK, as a most-anticipated title of 2022. Karla Strand of Ms. Magazine’s Feminist Know-It-All column writes: “Bestselling author Robert Jones, Jr. calls this debut ‘a loud triumph that caresses like a whisper.’ I can’t wait to give it a listen.” Ballantine Books will publish the novel on May 17, 2022.

Fiona Davis’ latest novel, THE MAGNOLIA PALACE, will make its debut on The New York Times Bestseller lists for the week of February 13. The book will debut at number 9 on the Hardcover Fiction list and number 10 on the Combined Print & E-book Fiction list. Dutton published the book on January 25, 2022.

The Today Show featured Cleyvis Natera's NERUDA ON THE PARK on their list of “18 books by Latinx Authors You'll Want to Read in 2022.” Lupita Aquino of “Lupita Reads on Instagram” told Today: "I have a sweet spot for debut authors and every year I keep an extra eye open for their titles, so, when Naima Coster shared her excitement for NERUDA ON THE PARK, I immediately added it to my TRB.” PopSugar also featured the novel on their list of “15 Books by Afro-Latinx Writers You Won't Want to Put Down,” calling it an "intriguing read." Ballantine Books will publish the novel on May 17, 2022.

Tanaïs' literary debut IN SENSORIUM was named one of Vogue's “7 LGBTQ+ Books We Can't Wait to Read This Year.” They write: "This memoir from writer and perfumer Tanaïs is as ambitious as it is wide-ranging, telling the story of their experience as an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme moving around the world in a wise and engaging manner that asks deeply relevant questions about queerness, gender, colonization and South Asian identity." The book was also selected as Lit Hub’s Astrology Book Club pick for “Cancer”: "Everyone knows that smell is the sense most strongly tied to memory, and by extension to emotion—two things that Cancers know a thing or two about. They will happily dive into the pool of sensations that is this memoir by writer and independent perfumer Tanaïs, and if they’re lucky, come out a little bit changed." Harper will publish the book on February 22, 2022.

THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton audiobook was selected for the ALA RUSA Listen List. The committee considered 284 titles and produced a list of 12 winners that "highlight extraordinary narrators and listening experiences that merit special attention by a general adult audience and the librarians who advise them." THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV was also featured on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour “Books We Love.” 37 Ink published the novel on March 30, 2021.

THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE by Tara Isabella Burton is a Harper’s Bazaar “Best, Buzziest New Book of 2022” (“a vortex of dark academia and queer desire”), a most-anticipated book for The Millions (“THE SECRET HISTORY meets FIGHT CLUB, sort of, but younger, more feminine, more queer”), and a most-anticipated crime fiction title for CrimeReads (“Burton’s second novel is just as deliciously involving as her debut SOCIAL CREATURE, but makes rather better use of her doctorate in theology and ongoing religious scholarship.... It’s a book about the nature of and limits of fervor, religious, sexual, and otherwise, and a spellbinding coming of age story that—despite being set in the Instagram-laden present—feels somehow plucked out of time”). Simon & Schuster will publish the book on March 8, 2022.