Leslie A. Fiedler’s recently reissued seminal text Love and Death in the American Novel is “an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.”

Ceri Isfryn’s documentary Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back revisits the deadly Welsh coal mining disaster and the authorities’ callous response.

Simon Garfield’s whimsical deep dive into an everyday object, The Pen, “will make you want to rush out and buy a writing implement to cherish.”

Charting a century of Chinese immigrants’ experience in the US, Beth Lew-Williams’ John Doe Chinaman is “highly relevant in today’s fraught political climate.”

“In prose that is sharp and entertaining,” Sarah Anderson’s debut novel Fallow imagines the life of the world’s first in-house surrogate at a tech firm.

Lu Xun’s Jottings Under Lamplight, edited by Eileen Cheng and Kirk Denton, is a collection of essays offering “an analysis of China’s modern dilemma.”