18 New Books to Read in October: Jesmyn Ward, John Grisham, Michael Lewis and more Buzzy new novels from Jesmyn Ward, Tananarive Due and Daniel Clowes; biographies of Madonna and Sam Bankman-Fried; John Grisham’s sequel to “The Firm”; and much more.
Writers Recall the First Time They Read ‘The Lottery’ Stephen King, David Sedaris, Carmen Maria Machado and others on how Shirley Jackson’s eerie classic first got under their skin.