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ON COURAGE de Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer

A deeply reported manual for how individuals can resist America’s slide away from democracy, based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.

ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR
by Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer
Mariner Books, June 2026
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Based on their acclaimed The New Yorker essay “So You Want to Be a Dissident?: A Practical Guide to Courage in Trump’s Age of Fear,” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin and former White House senior advisor Ami Fields-Meyer deliver a guide to courage in America’s age of fear. ON COURAGE is a captivating collection of stories and lessons from the front lines of the fight for the future of the free world that invite action and rouse hope.

Step into the room where the world’s new dissidents—ordinary people, in the U.S. and around the world, who never aspired to be activists—are writing the playbook for courage, risk, and resistance in the age of authoritarianism and unprecedented digital surveillance.

ON COURAGE simplifies the calculus of activism by making more accessible than ever the fundamentals of taking political risk. It’s a handbook that is equal parts practical and spiritual, a valuable resource and a powerful message for anyone, anywhere, who feels the walls of history closing in on them.

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, founder of the nonprofit journalism newsrooms The Markup and Proof News, and a New York Times contributing Opinion Writer. She is a winner and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for her work at The Wall Street Journal and ProPublica.

Ami Fields-Meyer is a writer, political strategist, and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served in the White House from 2021 to 2024, including as Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris and as a member of the President’s technology policy team. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Newsweek. He is a graduate of Emory University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

DAISY de Katie Cotugno

A modern-day twist on The Great Gatsby that invites readers into Daisy Buchanan’s gilded but morally bankrupt world, in a psychological suspense perfect for fans of The Wife Upstairs and The Last Mrs. Parrish.

DAISY
by Katie Cotugno
St. Martin’s, Winter 2027
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Daisy Buchanan is the top society hostess on East Egg, Long Island, with a successful husband, two beautiful children, and a jaw-dropping house. No one knows that she needs a few Klonopin to get through the day, to forget the unforgettable—that the love of her life, Jay Gatsby, was killed two summers ago. But when Daisy’s best friend, Jordan Baker, is found dead in her pool the morning after Tom Buchanan’s opulent 40th birthday party, Daisy’s fragile peace is shattered. When people get close to her, they have the awful habit of dying, and she needs to find out why.

As the police investigate Jordan’s murder, Daisy spirals into her own toxic cocktail of revelations and confusion. Is someone watching her, or is that the gin talking? What was it that Jordan wanted to tell her right before she died, and did that secret lead to her demise? Is whoever killed Jordan coming for Daisy next…and has that person been here all along?

With its razor-sharp social commentary and zippy pace, Daisy is an unputdownable read that shines a (bright green) light on one of American literature’s most iconic romantic heroines. Lovers of the original will appreciate the many callbacks to The Great Gatsby—as well as the novel’s shocking reveal—but ultimately, much like Daisy herself, it stands on its own two feet.

Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos as well as eight novels for young adults. She is also the coauthor (with Candace Bushnell) of Rules for Being a Girl. She lives in Boston with her family.

FLYING GEESE AND OTHER FICTIONS de Kira Chung Judish

A wildly compelling debut novel about family, ambition, and a lie that spins out of control.

FLYING GEESE AND OTHER FICTIONS
by Kira Chung Judish
HarperCollins, Winter/Spring 2027
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When high school senior Minjee Choi insists she’s been accepted to Harvard, she expects the lie to last only long enough to save face. But when her mother Dasom learns the truth, she doubles down instead—determined to keep the family dream alive. Soon, what began as a desperate cover-up becomes a dazzling performance for their tight-knit immigrant community in Fairfax County, VA, where everyone has a stake in the family’s success.

Told primarily through alternating mother–daughter perspectives, FLYING GEESE AND OTHER FICTIONS  reveals the relentless pressure to succeed at all costs, masterfully details the tug-of-war between blending in and standing out, and the weight of carrying generations of hope. At the same time, it’s a total blast—darkly funny, absurd, and irresistibly entertaining, with a duo you can’t help but root for even as the lie unravels. A chorus of nosy neighbors, competitive classmates, and PTA parents adds bite, comedy, and urgency, making the story as layered as it is propulsive. 

FLYING GEESE AND OTHER FICTIONS will appeal to fans of Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You for its poignant portrait of family and belonging, R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface for its sharp look at deception and desire, and Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation for its satirical take on identity and community. 

Kira Chung Judish is a Korean American and Jewish writer based in Silver Spring, Maryland. A graduate of Amherst College, she is pursuing a doctorate in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine and was named a 2025 Periplus Fellowship finalist. In addition to writing, she performs in local theatre productions.

THE RETURN OF THE OYSTERCATCHER de Scott Weidensaul

From the New York Times best-selling author of A World on the Wing, an exploration of the efforts led by scientists, conservationists, and Indigenous peoples to save birds around the world.

THE RETURN OF THE OYSTERCATCHER:
Saving Birds to Save the Planet
by Scott Weidensaul
W. W. Norton, April 2026
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As populations fall and once-great migration multitudes wither away, the future of birds may seem grim. But surprisingly, around the world, bird conservation is making things better. From the hyperlocal to the hemispherically immense, The Return of the Oystercatcher explores the recovery efforts that are not only preventing declines in bird populations but are helping them to thrive. Scott Weidensaul compiles amazing stories of hope and progress in some of the most unlikely places—from the resurgence of ducks in North America to the return of ospreys nesting in Southern Britain—to provide a road map of breathtaking environmental resilience. Because birds are so diverse, so ubiquitous, and cover virtually every square mile of the Earth’s surface, Weidensaul argues that by saving the birds we can also save the world. The result is an inspiring story of what’s working in bird conservation, recovery, and reintroduction, and what can work for the rest of the planet.

“Scott Weidensaul ranks among an elite group of writer-naturalists—Bruce Chatwin, John McPhee and David Quammen come to mind—whose straightforward eloquence elevates ecology to the level of philosophy.” —The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Scott Weidensaul is a Pennsylvania-based naturalist, most recently the New York Times bestseller A World on The Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, and one of the most respected natural history writers in the country. He was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for his book Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds, and has written more than 30 other books on birds. He is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine and a columnist for Bird Watcher’s Digest. For the past 20 years Weidensaul has overseen one of the largest owl-migration research projects in the country, and he is one of fewer than 200 licensed hummingbird banders in the world.

SENSUAL WORLD de Lauren Friedlander

A stylish and surreal Midwestern coming-of-age with black humor, SENSUAL WORLD is a story about desire, destruction, and transcendence for fans of Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch and Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise.

SENSUAL WORLD
by Lauren Friedlander
Catapult, February 2027
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Sensual World is about two young women—one escaping an isolated, sordid home in the plains, one escaping a TV-set childhood in The Big City—who meet at an avant-garde theater school in Kansas called “the Con.” They become the best of friends; together they strive to become Artists.

The founder of the Con, Una Flood, wrote a supposedly-cursed, never-performed play and a manifesto on how to become The Ultimate Artist. When the friends are cast in Possum Play, they are torn apart by the absurdist preparations and Flood’s supernatural machinations. A car crash; an identity swap; two women enter a maelstrom of obsession from which only one can emerge! The third act of redemption and reconciliation turns violent and strange—as they strive to embody The Ultimate Artist, the audience (us, fair readers) is unable to look away.

Sensual World lies somewhere in among the concepts of “if Ottessa Moshfegh went to theater camp,” and the movie Poor Things. The novel is viscerally stylish; you will taste the language of the Kansas soil and it’ll shock your senses like Sprite up the nose.

A writer from Kansas, currently in Brooklyn, Lauren Friedlander is a recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her fiction has been longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions and published in the Best Microfiction anthology, Catapult, Hobart After Dark, Okay Donkey, The Rumpus, Shooter, Slice, and Washington Square Review.