Nonfiction Books Coming in 2023: Apaches, Females, and Medieval Sex, Dingoes, and a Russian Stormtrooper in Ukraine

Apache leader Geronimo drives in 1904. Traveling with him are three other native men.

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We have barely managed to lower the pile of urgent reading essay books for 2022 on the priority table a bit and we already have the new consignment here for the first months.

It is stress, without a doubt, but joyful: we were not going to run out of material in this 2023 that is just starting.

It certainly won't be like that.

We will have wonderful non-fiction books, let there be no doubt and let's see if the new year gives us time to read them: the purpose is firm.

This selection that follows is not complete, of course, since there are many and varied titles that are going to appear and it must be remembered that some publishers, in a legitimate business trilerism game, do not reveal all their forecasts to keep bullets in the chamber, avoid counterprogramming or have your hands free according to the needs and the progress of the market.

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Desperta Ferro, which always gives us good surprises, announces in its catalog from January to June a few titles that make our teeth long.

One of them is, for February,

, by historian Alexander Watson, about the siege in World War I by Russian troops that invaded Galicia in 1914 of the Austro-Hungarian city of Przenysl, in southern Poland, on the border with Ukraine.

It was an episode, in two phases, terrible and that arouses very current echoes.

The book, whose author is a great specialist in the fight, has been considered by

a masterpiece.

In a very different setting is

(April), by Paul Andrew Hutton, historian at the University of New Mexico and author of the essential

, which deals with a story for which we do not lack good titles (the best,

, by David Roberts, Edhasa, 2005) but we are always eager to read news.

This promises to give a broader vision of the conflict of the paradigmatic town that occupies the popular imagination, above all through the cinema (“if you saw them, sir, they were not Apaches”) to go beyond the battles and explain life in depth. those arduous territories of the leathery nation of Cochise and Geronimo.

Without leaving the same publishing house, in March, a new volume of history with colored emblematic photos, in this case, after doing so with the First World War or the Spanish Civil War, on the history of women in

, by coloring specialist María Amaral and historian Dan Jones.

And another very interesting title for June,

, by Drew Gilpin Faust, about the American Civil War combat experience.

In Criticism, the exciting story of Colditz Castle, the most famous German prison for allied military specialists in escapes from World War II (with permission from Stalag Luft III from

and its "

), by the always so entertaining Ben Macintyre

one of them was David Stirling, the founder of the SAS);

also

by Simon Sebag Montefiore;

by Levi Roach, and

, an epistolary history of science, by José Manuel Sánchez Ron.

Aerial image of the Saxon town of Colditz, in Germany.

Taken on April 10, 1945 from a Royal Air Force plane on a reconnaissance mission, this photograph shows (bottom left) a castle that served as a high-security prison during World War II.

It was taken by Soviet troops in May 1945. Following the Yalta conference, Colditz became part of East Germany. Copyright RCAHMS

Great proposals are those of Acantilado, among them,

, by Thomas Sparr, about the community of stateless Jewish-Germans installed in Israel from 1933;

, by Karl Schlögel, a journey through cities whose names are so crudely familiar to us today such as Kiev, Odesa, Kharkov and Donetsk;

, by Jeremy Dauber, a history of Jewish humor from Kafka to Woody Allen and Mel Brooks;

and

, in which author Helena Attlee traces the origins and evolution of one such instrument.

In Seix Barral,

, an immersion by Paul Auster in the debate on arms in the US, with photos by Spencer Ostrander, and

, a set of reflections on various topics and authors by Salman Rushdie.

Past & Present will publish in February

interviews on current issues with Noam Chomsky, 94, by journalist David Barsamian;

in March, a revisiting of the decisive World War II confrontation,

by former British Army officer and contention specialist Jonathan Trigg;

in May, a graphic history of the wars of the Spanish empire, with text by Juan Carlos Losada and illustrations by Eugènia Anglès (author of the illustrated version of the history of the Second World War by Antony Beevor).

Without leaving the war, he looks very good

, by historian Federico Canaccini (June).

In a very different scenario, this same January will appear

by the scientific journalist Rachel E. Gross, an essay that wants to demolish myths, falsehoods and clichés about the female sex and all its biological architecture.

For its part, Salamandra proposes to explore another part of women and recovers

, in which the neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine delves into the mind of women through science and explains how changing hormonal states, for example, act as fertilizers of the different neurological connections.

Brizendine is also the author of

, with fewer pages.

A technician at the center in Tuzla (Bosnia) where remains found in mass graves near Srebrenica are analyzed.

In Errata Naturae,

, by Daria Serenko, a fighter against the Putin regime, about the women who work in the cultural organizations of the Russian State (one of which was the author herself until she was fired for her activism) with miserable salaries , sexual and labor harassment and always under suspicion.

Also a book on the energy transition,

, by Jaume Franquesa, PhD in Social Anthropology from the UB and who works at the University of Buffalo, in New York.

and

, a literary report by the 2022 Jan Michalski award-winning journalist Taina Tervonen about two women, a coroner and a DNA-collecting researcher, who work on the dead and missing in the Balkan wars.

Also not to be missed is

, a classic work on Australian ecology by anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, with a lot of personal experience, about dingoes and the attempt to eradicate them.

Interesting proposals in Debate, with

, an essay on identity drift, a reflection on the politics of identity and its assignments by the well-known Freud and Lacan scholar Elizabeth Roudinesco, and the exciting canonical biography of the director of the Manhattan project and enlightener of the atomic age Robert Oppenheimer,

, by Karl Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning book in 2006. Also a literary guide by Patxo Unzueta through his city, Bilbao, and Anne Applebaum's trip in 1991 by the borders of the disintegrating Soviet empire,

.

And the complete correspondence between María Casares and Albert Camus!

Arthur Honegger, Albert Camus, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Desailly, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Renaud, Balthus, María Casares and Gabriel Cattand at the Marigny Theater in Paris in 1948. Photo: Getty

Cabaret Voltaire will publish an essay on why write for the 2022 Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux,

.

In Peninsula, to highlight a direct book on machismo,

, by Martine Delvaux.

In Ariel, a delight,

by Richard Dawkins, about defying gravity, from pterodactyls to rockets, and

, by Stefan Bollmann.

In Taurus, an appeal to abandon the hyperactive life to regain balance and calm by one of the fashionable philosophers, the South Korean Byung-Chul Han,

;

a “definitive” biography of Andy Warhol by American art critic Blake Gopnik;

a journey through the word "intellectual" in the history of Spain in the last 130 years, by David Jiménez Torres;

and a very appetizing essay on the anthropologist Franz Boas and his revolt and that of other colleagues against the prevailing ethnocentric (and eugenic) canon in the discipline at the beginning of the 20th century,

, by Charles King.

Another essential story for our world, that of modern medicine, is the one told in

Ronald D. Gerste (February).

At the end of the month, Ático de los libros will publish the latest book on Tutankhamun (

) by archaeologist and Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley, which includes the history of the monarch and the discovery of his tomb (the centenary of the discovery continues! !) through 10 different perspectives, including those of the king himself, his embalmers, the robbers of the sepulchre, explorers and archaeologists.

Another noteworthy history book from the publisher is

, by the brilliant French historian Marie Faverau.

And this month Ático will also publish a new title by the writer and arctic traveler Nancy Campbell (author of

in 2020 ),

, a tour that includes discovering terms like the Icelandic

“snowflakes as big as a dog's paw”.

And in April the very interesting and revealing history of sex in the Middle Ages,

by Katherine Harvey.

French soldiers prisoners after surrendering to North Vietnamese troops at the end of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, in May 1954.REUTER

In connection with the same period and theme, Taurus will also publish in February

, by the emeritus professor of medieval history María Jesús Fuente.

And also in Taurus a new original way of taking advantage of the classics, now with the

It is about

by Andrea Marcolongo.

And a new art essay from entertaining specialist Will Gompertz,

.

In Captain Swing,

, by Lara Maiklem, who for 15 years has searched for things in the mud of the Thames, a huge archaeological site, and recounts the life of the river and its people through what she has found.

And

Lyanda Lynn Haupt, a mix of science, biography and memoir that reveals the little-known story of Mozart and his beloved bird.

Tusquets will publish

, the way in which Éric Vuillard approaches the abandonment of Vietnam by France and the US. In

he will bring together two texts by Milan Kundera on the destiny and culture of Europe, and in

, writings by Javier fences;

he will also recover the memories of Terenci Moix,

Other very different memories arrive at Plaza & Janés in January, those of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex,

And a very appetizing sports-cultural essay based on the SER program of four journalists specialized in American football,

,

, ideal to fully understand Al Pacino's speech in

.

A non-fiction book by novelist Julia Navarro,

, a personal journey through stories of real and fictional women, including the role of some unexpected men.

Russian soldiers during the invasion of Ukraine.

Konstantin Mihalchevskiy (Europa Press)

In Edhasa,

by the always so suggestive Valerio Manfredi, with texts on Caesar, Ulysses or Carthaginian voyages, and an anthology of yellow journalistic texts from Spain in the thirties.

In Aguilar,

, a journey through discoveries from fire to

by engineer David Calle.

In Arpa,

, by Sergio C. Fanjul, a journalist for EL PAÍS, halfway between essay and chronicle, a map drawn on the terrain of precariousness, poverty and inequality in Spain.

Also in Harp,

, by Ricardo de Querol, also a journalist from this house, which deals with how digitization, after initial optimism, has eroded both individual and collective consensus.

In Galaxy Gutenberg, many interesting titles:

by Pavel Filátiev, testimony of the invasion of Ukraine by a soldier of the Russian assault forces;

, by Daniel Innerarity;

, by Javier Moreno Luzón;

, by Edward J. Watts;

by Jesús Ruiz Mantilla;

and on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Eugenio Trías,

a set of 38 conversations with the philosopher.

Shackleton Books will publish

by Hugo Mercier, which argues that

they don't really work;

or the choral biography of the members of the Vienna Circle,

by Karl Sigmund.

And there's no shortage of a good book on Nazis: in The Sphere of Books,

George L. Mosse's 1978 classic on the intellectual and popular ideas of racism and anti-Semitism that led to genocide.

Also in the same editorial an unusual

, by Espido Freire.

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