I asked several of Current’s Contributing Editors and Editors what books, new and old(er) they are most looking forward to reading this fall. Here are some responses I received. You can reliably expect reviews of some of these in the coming months. Please note that some of these books have already been published, mostly in the past year or two, while others are forthcoming this fall or early winter.
Tim Larsen
Charles Taylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment (2024)
Robert Erle Barham
Jamie Quatro, Two-Step Devil (September, 2024)
Agnes Howard
Christine Rosen, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World (September, 2024)
Chris Shannon gives a list of the recent publications he is most excited about in American Catholic History:
Amanda Bresie, Veiled Leadership: Katharine Drexel, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and Race Relations (2023)
Barbara E. Mattick, Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South (2023)
Susan Bigelow Reynolds, People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury (2023)
Kathleen Deagan (editor), Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America: Parish, Church, and Mission (2024)
William S. Cossen, Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2023)
Thomas J. Rowland, Patriotism is a Catholic Virtue: Irish-American Catholics and the Church in the Era of the Great War, 1900-1918 (2023)
Robert Emmett Curran, American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era (2023)
Elizabeth M. Carter
Nnedi Okorofor, Death of the Author (forthcoming, January 2025)
Lee Hawkins, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free (forthcoming, January 2025)
Richard Carwardine, Righteous Strife, How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union (forthcoming, January 2025)
John Haas
Lawrence Buell, Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently (2023)
Gary J. Bass, Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (forthcoming, October 2024)
“Finally, an older book I skimmed at the time (I was writing my dissertation) but want to give a serious read”: