New in Paperback: ‘A Little Devil in America’ and ‘My Friend Anna’

ANTIQUITIES, by Cynthia Ozick. (Classic, 272 pp., $16.) The Occasions critic Dwight Garner famous that this assortment of 5 tales could also be a small addition to Ozick’s voluminous physique of labor, however it’s one that’s “richly patterned and strongly coloured.” The titular story, a novella set in 1949, follows a retired lawyer as he joins six different semi-distinguished previous males to jot down accounts of their time at a defunct patrician boys’ academy.

A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA: Notes in Reward of Black Efficiency, by Hanif Abdurraqib. (Random Home, 320 pp., $18.) Abdurraqib displays on Black efficiency in America by essays on tv, music, movie, minstrel reveals and vaudeville. As our reviewer, Lauretta Charlton, famous, the ebook can also be a meditation on Abdurraqib’s expertise as a Black man, “written with sincerity and emotion.”

AMERICAN DELIRIUM, by Betina Gonzalez. Translated by Heather Cleary. (Holt, 224 pp., $17.99.) As our reviewer, Anderson Tepper, put it, this fluidly translated novel, set in a Midwestern American city taken over by a robust hallucinogenic plant, is “a dizzying vortex” that “affords an eerily acquainted imaginative and prescient of American insanity and decay — from an Argentine author, no much less.”

SOUL CITY: Race, Equality, and the Misplaced Dream of an American Utopia, by Thomas Healy. (Metropolitan, 448 pp., $19.99.) In 1969, the civil rights chief Floyd McKissick set out on an formidable and ill-fated mission to construct a Black-run metropolis on a former slave plantation in rural North Carolina. As our reviewer, Chris Lebron, famous, Healy “does a wonderful job recounting” the main points of “one of many biggest least-told tales in American historical past.”