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In the future, we can also add more specific tags to distinguish, say, novels and story collections, memoirs and essay collections-if this would be helpful, do let us know!Īnd though we do our best to strike a balance between being both curated and comprehensive, we’re bound to miss a few books, not to mention the new titles that are being announced every day. While we’re highly selective about what makes it into our biannual previews, we know the sheer number of books here (171, to be exact) can be overwhelming, so for our 2023B list we’ve added tags for readers to more quickly distinguish fiction and nonfiction titles. Smith, Gay Talese, Jesmyn Ward, Bryan Washington, Colson Whitehead, Diane Williams, Banana Yoshimoto, C Pam Zhang, Babs herself, and many, many more-a quick note. But time flies, and new books wait for no one.īefore we get into it-and by “it” I mean forthcoming titles by Alexandra Chang, Annie Ernaux, Jon Fosse, Ross Gay, Werner Herzog, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Benjamin Labatut, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li, John McPhee, Marie NDiaye, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sigrid Nunez, Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith, Tracy K.

And as the imitative but inferior Stoker shows, it’s the kind of film that casts a long shadow.Hello beloved Millions readers! It feels like only yesterday we were mooning over the most exciting reads of 2023A. It’s subversive, nail-biting, eerie, and gorgeously shot - no wonder Hitch often cited it as his finest achievement. Hitchcock picks at the placid surface of small-town America like a scab, imbuing each scene with deep-running undercurrents of menace. On the surface, Cotten is the local boy made good, but he’s actually rotten to the core.

Written by Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt is essentially what would happen if you let loose a monster in Our Town.

( EXTRAS include a recycled but informative making-of documentary.) Joseph Cotten plays the original Uncle Charlie, a suave, beloved relative living with his sister’s family until his niece (Teresa Wright) uncovers the murderous secret behind his meticulously crafted facade, which propels the movie toward its iconic final sequence aboard a train. Hitchcock’s brilliant film (also newly available on Blu-ray) is still just as unnerving and masterful 70 years later.