New in Paperback: ‘How Stunning We Had been’ and ‘No One Is Speaking About This’

FAKE ACCOUNTS, by Lauren Oyler. (Catapult, 272 pp., $16.95.) Within the days after Donald Trump’s presidential election in 2016, a blogger discovers her boyfriend has been secretly dwelling a second life on-line as a right-wing provocateur. “Faux Accounts,” our reviewer, Katie Kitamura, famous, is “an invigorating work, lethal exact in its skewering of individuals, locations and issues.”

ALL THAT SHE CARRIED: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Household Memento, by Tiya Miles. (Random Home, 416 pp., $18.99.) Miles, a historian at Harvard and a MacArthur fellowship recipient, writes about ladies, chattel slavery and the silences of archival data by specializing in the story of an embroidered cotton sack relationship again to the mid-18th century. The Instances critic Jennifer Szalai referred to as it “a exceptional e-book.”

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS, by Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead, 224 pp., $17.) Lockwood’s web novel, one of many Ebook Evaluate’s 10 Finest Books of 2021, follows the lifetime of a lady who turns into engrossed by “the portal,” a metaphor for our on-line social media world. “Lockwood is a contemporary phrase witch,” our reviewer, Merve Emre, commented, “her writing splendid and sordid by turns.”

GAMBLING WITH ARMAGEDDON: Nuclear Roulette From Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Martin J. Sherwin. (Classic, 640 pp., $19.) Sherwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has comprehensively analyzed the influence of nuclear weapons from the top of World Conflict II to the Cuban missile disaster. In accordance with our reviewer, Talmage Boston, “the e-book ought to turn out to be the definitive account of its topic.”