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What inspired your trip? I’ve been going on history-themed road trips for decades. In the 1920s and ‘30s, people in the U.S. and in the rest of the world were looking to Dearborn, home of the Ford Motor Company, to see what America was. For historians, challenging the idea of a nation-state as the only bucket of analysis is a long-standing tradition.

Given seesawing tariffs, stock market upheaval, and ongoing supply-chain woes, does the average person have any hope of grasping what’s going on with the economy? “I don’t think you can understand it from day-to-day experiences,” says historian Sven Beckert, whose research focuses on the economic, social, political, and global dimensions of capitalism. Power grabs Other books drill down into specific areas where the movement of money has redirected the course of history. The Greatest Mistake of Human History: PW Talks with Victoria Bateman Business Lessons from Taylor Swift Financial Advice for Different Life Stages Credit: By Liz Scheier

Women have never been “missing” from economic life, Bateman writes in Economica (Seal, Sept.); they’ve simply been hidden from view by those compiling the history books. Economies thrive when women are fully active in them, and I’m worried that we’re about to repeat the greatest mistake of human history by sidelining women’s contributions. History books have been written by and for men. [...]laws have been passed to keep women constrained, and societies have worked to keep women in the home, to capture this wealth, either through their children or through money that was controlled by their husbands.

Representation is relative, says Osworth, a lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and the author of 2021’s Gamergate-inspired We Are Watching Eliza Bright. A thousand years in the future, Griffon Keming, a trans journalist in New York City, is mourning the deaths of his adoptive parents, a trans art couple who took him in when he ran away from an abusive home as a teen. In seeking out any kind of representation as a young trans person, Fellman found mostly subtext (a lesbian couple from the popular manga Sailor Moon being called “cousins” with a wink and a nudge) and one-dimensional queers behaving badly. Read more from our LGBTQ+ Books feature.

Van Veen’s “stunning sophomore outing,” per PW’s starred review, takes place in her native Netherlands in the 1880s, when a bog body surfaces on Sarah’s husband’s estate with a stone in its mouth. Two teens—newcomer Andi and sheriff’s son Ro—meet at the local arcade, where the game’s fans quickly turn obsessive and violent. Harper Voyager, May In this tale of medieval religious fervor and sapphic desire, Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months, and with food running out, the women inside are beginning to eye one another with more hunger than lust.

Family reunions Davis edited Rosália Rodrigo’s debut, Beasts of Carnaval (Mira, July), which is set in an alternate version of the author’s native Puerto Rico. “There was an oral tradition among the women in his family,” says Saga editor Sareena Kamath. According to PW’s review, “Issa turns to the magic her mother has long forbidden: communing with the dead.” “How would Native Americans [such as the Peter Pan character Tiger Lily]

In Murder by Memory (Tordotcom, Mar.), which PW’s starred review called an “ebullient first foray into speculative fiction,” the ship’s detective of an interstellar luxury liner wakes up in a new body, with a copy of her memory safe in the ship’s library and a murderer on the loose. In this new series, the romance goes for several books, but the mystery completes in each book. For a book about murder, there’s a lot of warmth and humor.