New-Release Roundup

Recent book releases from Sun authors include an exploration of illness and medicine that imagines a more humane form of care, and a book of meditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life. Pick one up today and support these wonderful writers.—Ed.

 

Field Guide to Falling Ill

Jonathan Gleason’s “Field Guide to Falling Ill,” from our May 2023 issue, is the title essay in his new collection.

From the publisher: “ ‘What was wrong with them? That’s what we wanted to know.’ So begins Jonathan Gleason’s prizewinning collection of essays on the human lives behind the corporate, legal, and cultural practices that shape disease. Drawing on his experiences as a medical interpreter and patient, Gleason illuminates a stunning range of topics, including the racial dimensions of organ donation, the past and present of the AIDS crisis, and the troubled relationship between state violence and mental illness. With sharp analysis and boundless empathy, Gleason shows how medicine is shaped by cultural narratives, historical contexts, and the complicated people who practice it.”

By Jonathan Gleason

Foxes for Everybody

Catherine Pierce’s poem “Why I Respect the Dog” appeared in our July 2024 issue. Her new book is titled Foxes for Everybody. 

From the publisher: “Like a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there’s no clocking out. Organized around the hours of the day, Foxes for Everybody gives voice to the marvels, fears, absurdities, and astonishments of parenthood. These essays offer twenty-four glimpses into how we experience time, our families, our planet, and all of those small moments that aren’t small at all. In memories and reflections that weave through tornadoes and jellyfish, cemeteries and carousels, mortality, mental health, and the exquisite gift of a perfect sentence, acclaimed writer Catherine Pierce reminds us that fear and joy can and do live side by side, and urges us to stay.”

By Catherine Pierce