New & Noteworthy, From Food Policy to Communicating With the Dead
Feb. 2, 2021
Recent titles of interest:
LOUD BLACK GIRLS: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What’s Next?, edited by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené. (Fourth Estate, $26.99.) Black British women from a range of disciplines (writers, artists, actors, etc.) discuss finding and preserving their voices.
RESETTING THE TABLE: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat, by Robert Paarlberg. (Knopf, $27.95.) Paarlberg, a Harvard political scientist specializing in agriculture and food policy, argues that commercial farms have an important role to play in fostering healthier eating habits.
RABBIT ISLAND: Stories, by Elvira Navarro. Translated by Christina MacSweeney. (Two Lines, $19.95.) In this impressionistic, dreamlike collection, Navarro, a Spanish writer, deploys surrealism to comic, haunting effect: a floating grandmother, a pawlike appendage growing from an ear.