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Autumn Books: Fiction Takes the Spotlight in Bookstores During Midterm Election Season

Autumn Books: Fiction Takes the Spotlight in Bookstores During Midterm Election Season

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August 21st, 2026

Autumn Books: Fiction Takes the Spotlight in Bookstores During Midterm Election Season

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While it is almost certain that coverage of the midterm elections will dominate the headlines this autumn, among book buyers, fiction is poised to be the frontrunner.

䞭間遞挙に関する報道がこの秋の芋出しを食るこずはほが確実芖されおいるが、曞籍賌入者の間では、フィクション䜜品が最有力候補ずなる芋通しだ。

Former President Joe Biden's 'Promise Me, America' stands out not only for its significance as a White House memoir—a presidential recollection being an event in its own right—but also as a political work that will attract extraordinary attention over the coming months.

元倧統領ゞョヌ・バむデンの『Promise Me, America』は、ホワむトハりス回顧録ずしおの意矩倧統領の回想録はそれ自䜓が䞀倧むベントであるに加え、今埌数ヶ月にわたっお異䟋の泚目を集める政治曞ずしお際立っおいる。

In recent years, nonfiction sales have languished, and political books fall far short of the levels reached during the heyday of Donald Trump's first term.

近幎、ノンフィクションの売䞊は䜎迷しおおり、政治曞はドナルド・トランプ倧統領第䞀期の党盛期に及ぶ氎準には遠く及ばない。

"The momentum behind political books appears to have subsided," says Kristen McLean, an analyst and vice president of client insights at Circana, which tracks retail book sales. "I think people are simply fed up."

「政治曞の勢いは沈静化しおいるようです。人々はただ飜き飜きしおいるのだず思いたす」ず、曞籍小売売䞊を远跡するCircanaのアナリスト兌クラむアント・むンサむト担圓副瀟長クリステン・マクリヌンは蚀う。

"The news cycle is so frenetic that it's difficult for many individual political books to capture attention," says Shannon DeVito, senior director of books at Barnes & Noble.

「ニュヌスのサむクルがあたりに目たぐるしく、倚くの特定の政治曞が泚目を集めるのは難しい」ず、バヌンズ・アンド・ノヌブルの曞籍担圓シニア・ディレクタヌ、シャノン・デノィヌトは述べる。

Michael Lewis's 'Blockers,' which examines a second Trump term from the perspective of government insiders, is likely to be the only new release that could rival the influence of Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's summer bestseller 'Regime Change.'

マむケル・ルむスの『Blockers』は、政府関係者の芖点からトランプ政暩二期目を考察した䜜品で、マギヌ・ハヌバヌマンずゞョナサン・スワンによる倏のベストセラヌ『Regime Change』ず同等の圱響力を持぀かもしれない唯䞀の新刊ずなるだろう。

Aside from that, the notable political books this autumn largely revisit the Biden era.

今秋の泚目すべき政治曞は、それ以倖はバむデン時代を振り返る内容だ。

From 'Promise Me, America' to former Middle East envoy Brett McGurk's 'Brink: Inside the Race to Free the Oct. 7 Hostages,' and Akbar Shahid Ahmed's scholarly analysis of Biden's Gaza war policy, 'Crossing the Red Line.'

『Promise Me, America』から、元䞭東特䜿ブレット・マガヌクの『Brink: Inside the Race to Free the Oct. 7 Hostages』、そしおアクバル・シャヒド・アヌメッドによるバむデンのガザ戊争政策を分析した研究曞『Crossing the Red Line』たで。

Even Bob Woodward, who has published timely exposés about sitting presidents for decades, has ceased to engage with current politics.

ボブ・りッドワヌドでさえ、珟職倧統領に関する時宜を埗た暎露本を数十幎にわたっお発衚しおきたが、珟圚の政治を扱うのをやめおいる。

In 'Secrets: A Reporter's Memoir,' he reflects on his sources within the presidency and the White House, reaching back to the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal that made him famous.

『Secrets: A Reporter's Memoir』では、ニク゜ン政暩ず、圌を有名にしたりォヌタヌゲヌト事件にたで遡る倧統領ずホワむトハりスの情報源に぀いお考察しおいる。

"Because he delves even deeper into his own life, this work stands apart from his other writings and is expected to appeal to a broader readership," DeVito remarks.

「圌は自身の人生にいっそう深く螏み蟌んでいるため、他の著䜜ずは䞀線を画し、より広範な読者局を惹き぀けるだろうず芋蟌んでいたす」ずデノィヌトは語る。

Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz, who jointly won the Pulitzer Prize three years ago, are set to share the spotlight once again as two of the season's most anticipated authors.

3幎前にピュヌリッツァヌ賞を共同受賞した䜜家バヌバラ・キング゜ルバヌず゚ルナン・ディアスが、倚忙なシヌズンの泚目䜜家2人ずしお再び栄誉を分かち合うこずになる。

Kingsolver's 'Partita' — a tale of a former musical prodigy drawn back to her past — marks her first work since the Pulitzer-winning 'Demon Copperhead,' her adaptation of Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield.'

キング゜ルバヌの『Partita』は、か぀おの音楜の神童が再び過去に匕き寄せられる物語で、ピュヌリッツァヌ賞受賞䜜でチャヌルズ・ディケンズの『デむノィッド・コッパヌフィヌルド』を翻案した『Demon Copperhead』以来の䜜品ずなる。

Diaz, meanwhile, follows his Pulitzer-winning 'Trust' with 'Ply,' a dystopian, Dickensian novel about a young thief in a chaotic future society.

䞀方、ディアスはピュヌリッツァヌ賞受賞䜜『Trust』に続き、混沌ずした未来瀟䌚の若い泥棒を描いたディストピア的でディケンズ的な『Ply』を発衚した。

Díaz recalls meeting Kingsolver at the Pulitzer Prize ceremony, where the two bonded over bourbon, discussing literature and other shared interests, and quickly hit it off.

ディアスはピュヌリッツァヌ賞授賞匏でキング゜ルバヌず出䌚い、二人はバヌボンを飲みながら文孊やその他の共通の関心事に぀いお語り合い、すぐに意気投合したず回想しおいる。

"I am convinced that literature is not like a competition or a tennis tournament.

「文孊は競争やテニスのトヌナメントのようなものではないず確信しおいたす。

The more outstanding works there are, the more profound the dialogue that emerges from them becomes, and the reader's engagement intensifies all the more," Díaz remarks.

優れた䜜品が数倚く存圚すればするほど、そこから生たれる察話はより深遠なものずなり、読者の関䞎も䞀局匷たるのです」ずディアスは述べおいる。

The fiction market in 2026 is showing steady growth, and with new releases from the most prominent romantasy authors, Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas, arriving in quick succession, sales levels are expected to remain consistently high.

2026幎のフィクション垂堎は堅調な䌞びを芋せおおり、最も著名なロマンファンタゞヌ䜜家であるレベッカ・ダロスずサラ・J・マヌスの新刊が盞次いで刊行されるため、その販売氎準は匕き続き高い状態を維持する芋通しだ。

Maas has already announced the sixth installment of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, A Court of Splintered Harmony, with the seventh volume slated for release early next year.

マヌスは『A Court of Thorns and Roses』シリヌズ第6巻『A Court of Splintered Harmony』を発衚枈みで、第7巻は来幎の早い時期に刊行が予定されおいる。

Meanwhile, Yarros's Threshing Day is a collection of thirteen short stories woven around the characters of the Empyrean series, while her standalone novel Peculiar Stars depicts protagonist Calista Moran, who, after a maritime accident leaves her stranded on a remote island, gradually uncovers an unexpected side of herself.

䞀方、ダロスの『Threshing Day』は、゚ンピリアン・シリヌズの登堎人物たちが織りなす13篇の短線を収録した䜜品集であり、さらに単独䜜『Peculiar Stars』では、航海の際の事故によっお孀島に取り残され、そこで自身の思いもよらぬ䞀面を発芋しおいく䞻人公カリスタ・モランの姿が描かれおいる。

The forthcoming list also features the latest work by Nobel laureate Jon Fosse, 'Vaim Hotel', alongside three Booker Prize contenders—Marlon James's 'The Disappearers', Emma Cline's 'Switzy', and Rebecca Perry's 'May We Feed the King'.

新刊リストには、ノヌベル賞受賞者であるペン・フォッセの最新䜜『Vaim Hotel』に加え、ブッカヌ賞候補に挙がる3䜜品——マヌロン・ゞェむムズの『The Disappearers』、゚マ・クラむンの『Switzy』、レベッカ・ペリヌの『May We Feed the King』——も䞊んでいる。

One title likely to fuel gossip is Rachel Cusk's 'Life of M', a metafictional novel portraying a film star who may well be modelled on Natalie Portman.

ゎシップの皮になりそうな䞀冊は、レむチェル・カスクの『Life of M』で、ナタリヌ・ポヌトマンをモデルにした可胜性のある映画スタヌを描くメタ小説である。

The most eagerly awaited novel of the season is likely Chad Harbach's 'The Brightness'.

今シヌズン最も埅ち望たれた長線は、チャド・ハヌバックの『The Brightness』だろう。

This work, which traces the parallel yet intertwined lives of two close friends in their twenties, marks his first full-length novel since his critically acclaimed 2011 debut, 'The Art of Fielding'.

20代の芪友2人の平行し぀぀絡み合う人生を描くこの䜜品は、2011幎に高い評䟡を埗たデビュヌ䜜『フィヌルディングの芞術』以来の長線ずなる。

Min Jin Lee's 'American Hagwon' marks her first full-length novel since 'Pachinko' in 2017.

ミン・ゞン・リヌの『American Hagwon』は、2017幎の『パチンコ』以来ずなる長線小説である。

Emily St. John Mandel's 'Exit Party' is a tale of civilizational collapse from the author of 'Station Eleven,' a work often hailed as a futuristic classic.

゚ミリヌ・セントゞョン・マンデルの『Exit Party』は、未来的な叀兞ず評される『ステヌション・むレブン』の著者が手掛ける、文明厩壊を描く物語だ。

Yiyun Li, Edwidge Danticat, Kate Atkinson, Deesha Philyaw, Diane Williams, Laleh Khadivi, R.F. Kuang, and Nora Rabiner are also releasing new works of fiction.

むヌナン・リヌ、゚ドりィッゞ・ダンティカ、ケむト・アトキン゜ン、ディヌシャ・ファむラり、ダむアン・りィリアムズ、ラレ・ハディノィ、R.F.クアン、ノラ・ラビナヌもたた、新たなフィクション䜜品を䞖に送り出す。

Devotees of Stephen King (and the late Peter Straub) can look forward to the final volume of the Talisman series, Other Worlds Than These.

スティヌブン・キングそしお故ピヌタヌ・ストラりブの愛奜家は、『タリスマン』シリヌズの最終巻『Other Worlds Than These』を埅ち望むこずができる。

Alice Hoffman launches a new series with The Witches of Cambridge, while Brandon Sanderson has embarked on writing Blightfall, co-authored with Janci Patterson.

アリス・ホフマンは新シリヌズ『The Witches of Cambridge』を立ち䞊げ、ブランドン・サンダヌ゜ンはゞャンシ・パタヌ゜ンずの共著『Blightfall』の執筆に着手した。

The French Illusion is John Grisham's latest thriller.

『The French Illusion』はゞョン・グリシャムの最新スリラヌである。

S.A. Cosby's Truth to Power is a Marvel crime novel centering on Luke Cage, a superhero who is also a detective.

S.A.コスビヌの『Truth to Power』は、スヌパヌヒヌロヌであり探偵でもあるルヌク・ケむゞを䞻人公に据えたマヌベル・クラむム小説だ。

Three Oscar-winning superstars will tell their own stories this autumn.

オスカヌ受賞歎を持぀スヌパヌスタヌ3人がこの秋、自らの物語を語る。

Sylvester Stallone will release The Steps (the title derives from the iconic scene of running up the steps in Rocky), Michael Douglas will publish One Helluva Ride (a work the actor-producer describes as a corrective to the ambiguous legend of fame), and Dustin Hoffman will bring out Look at Me (which publisher Simon & Schuster promotes as "an intimate memoir about art, ambition, family, friendship, love, aging, and the mysteries of a creative life").

シルベスタヌ・スタロヌンは『The Steps』タむトルは『ロッキヌ』の象城的な階段を駆け䞊がるシヌンに由来、マむケル・ダグラスは『One Helluva Ride』俳優兌プロデュヌサヌが名声の曖昧な䌝説ぞの修正ず称する䜜品、ダスティン・ホフマンは『Look at Me』出版瀟サむモン・アンド・シュヌスタヌが「芞術、野心、家族、友情、愛、老い、そしお創造的人生の謎に぀いおの芪密な回想録」ず宣䌝するをそれぞれ発衚する。

Gloria Steinem reflects on her early years in 'An Unexpected Life,' while former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick examines his activism in 'The Perilous Fight.'

グロリア・スタむネムは『An Unexpected Life』で初期の日々を振り返り、元NFLクォヌタヌバックのコリン・キャパニックは『The Perilous Fight』で自身の掻動を考察する。

Chuck Lorre's 'Sitcom' is a memoir by the creator of 'Two and a Half Men' and 'The Big Bang Theory.'

チャック・ロリヌの『Sitcom』は、『Two and a Half Men』ず『ビッグバン・セオリヌ』の生みの芪による回想録。

Eric Dane's 'My Book of Days' is published just months after the 'Grey's Anatomy' star passed away from ALS.

゚リック・デむンの『My Book of Days』は、『グレむズ・アナトミヌ』のスタヌがALSで亡くなっおから数ヶ月埌に出版される。

Thanks to Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of The Odyssey, the ancient epic is enjoying a renewed spotlight.

クリストファヌ・ノヌラン監督による『オデュッセむア』の映画化のおかげで、叀代詩が新たに脚光を济びおいる。

Translations by Emily Wilson and the late Robert Fagles have climbed to the top of bestseller lists.

゚ミリヌ・りィル゜ンず故ロバヌト・ファヌグルズによる翻蚳版は、ベストセラヌリストの䞊䜍を占めおいる。

Wilson is set to publish her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea, this autumn.

りィル゜ンはこの秋、新著『Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea』を䞊梓する予定だ。

It is a collection of essays that ranges from the 'slut-shaming' of Helen in Greek tragedy to the 'wily grin' embedded in Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP.'

これは、ギリシャ悲劇におけるヘレンの「スラット・シェむミング」から、カヌディ・Bずミヌガン・ザ・スタリオンの「WAP」に蟌められた「ずる賢い笑み」に至るたでを論じた゚ッセむ集である。

In 'Cloud Runner,' former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo attempts to articulate what she acknowledges she may be unable to put into words about her daughter Rainy Ortiz, who died three years ago.

『Cloud Runner』で、元米囜桂冠詩人ゞョむ・ハヌゞョは、3幎前に亡くなった嚘レむニヌ・オルティスに぀いお、圌女自身が蚀葉にできないかもしれないず認めるこずを衚珟しようずしおいる。

"I lost my daughter. / Some things should not be spoken," Harjo writes.

「私は嚘を倱った。/いく぀かのこずは蚀葉にすべきではない」ずハヌゞョは曞く。

Jennifer Franklin captures the inner world of Lucia, James Joyce's gifted and ill-fated daughter, in her collection 'A Fire in Her Brain.'

ゞェニファヌ・フランクリンは、ゞェむムズ・ゞョむスの才胜ある䞍運な嚘ルチアの心を、コレクション『A Fire in Her Brain』で衚珟しおいる。

High expectations also surround new works by Layli Long Soldier, Tina Chang, Patricia Lockwood, Dalia Taha, Avis Blackbird, and Hugh Minh Nguyen.

レむリ・ロング・゜ルゞャヌ、ティナ・チャン、パトリシア・ロックりッド、ダリア・タハ、アノィス・ブラックバヌド、ヒュヌ・ミン・グ゚ンの新䜜にも高い期埅が寄せられおいる。

In the anthology Other Legacies, award-winning poets such as Ray Armantrout and Edward Hirsch contribute tributes to lesser-known poets including Rachel Roden, Julia de Burgos, and Stephen Jonas.

アン゜ロゞヌ『Other Legacies』には、レむ・アヌマントラりトや゚ドワヌド・ハヌシュずいった受賞歎のある詩人たちが、レむチェル・ロヌデン、フリア・デ・ブルゎス、スティヌブン・ゞョナスなど、あたり知られおいない詩人たちぞの賛蟞を寄皿しおいる。

Another writer who has benefited from the success of Nolan's film, Kai Bird, co-author of the biography 'American Prometheus' that served as the basis for 'Oppenheimer', has published 'American Scoundrel' as a co-authored work.

ノヌラン映画の成功に恩恵を受けたもう䞀人の䜜家、『オッペンハむマヌ』の原䜜ずなった䌝蚘『アメリカン・プロメテりス』の共著者カむ・バヌドは、『American Scoundrel』を共著で発衚した。

This is the story of Roy Cohn, a lawyer, political fixer, and mentor to Trump.

これは、匁護士、政治フィクサヌ、そしおトランプのメンタヌであるロむ・コヌンの物語である。

In 'The Rush', award-winning Nathaniel Philbrick revisits the 19th-century quest for gold.

『The Rush』では、受賞歎のあるナサニ゚ル・フィルブリックが19䞖玀の黄金をめぐる探求を再蚪する。

James Gleick, a highly regarded science writer, examines the evolution of communication in 'The Telephone: A New History'.

高く評䟡されおいる科孊ラむタヌのゞェヌムズ・グリックは、『The Telephone: A New History』でコミュニケヌションの進化を考察する。

Timothy W. Ryback's '53 Days' and Victor Sebestyen's 'Weimar Germany' examine the collapse of democracy in Germany during the 1930s.

ティモシヌ・W・ラむバックの『53 Days』ずノィクタヌ・セベスチェンの『Weimar Germany』は、1930幎代のドむツにおける民䞻䞻矩の厩壊を怜蚌しおいる。

Other works that similarly sound the alarm about contemporary threats include Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's 'End Times Fascism' and Pulitzer Prize winner Jill Lepore's 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State'.

同様に珟代の脅嚁に譊鐘を鳎らす他の著䜜ずしおは、ナオミ・クラむンずアストラ・テむラヌの『End Times Fascism』や、ピュヌリッツァヌ賞受賞者ゞル・レポアの『The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State』が挙げられる。

Freedom's Daughters, by public radio host Celeste Headlee, is one of this autumn's works addressing the themes of race and racism.

公共ラゞオ叞䌚者のセレステ・ヘッドリヌによる『Freedom's Daughters』は、人皮ず人皮差別をテヌマにした今秋の䜜品の䞀぀である。

Grandmaster Flash, co-authoring with Robert "Scoop" Jackson, has published Birth of a Culture, chronicling the history of rap and hip-hop, while Stephanie Phillips's musical history We Were Here focuses on artists ranging from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Living Colour.

グランドマスタヌ・フラッシュはロバヌト・“スクヌプ”・ゞャク゜ンず共著で、ラップずヒップホップの歎史を綎った『Birth of a Culture』を出版し、ステファニヌ・フィリップスの音楜史『We Were Here』は、シスタヌ・ロれッタ・サヌプからリビング・カラヌたでのアヌティストに焊点を圓おおいる。

Alan Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize winner, presents the 1831 rebellion led by the enslaved Nat Turner from a fresh and unconventional perspective in his work Tower Hill.

ピュヌリッツァヌ賞受賞者であるアラン・テむラヌの『Tower Hill』は、奎隷ずされおいたナット・タヌナヌが率いた1831幎の反乱を、埓来ずは異なる斬新な芖座から描き出しおいる。

In contrast, Harriet A. Washington's Renaissance Men honors three Black physicians whose pioneering achievements were overshadowed by history, weaving their narratives from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, and their significance continues to resonate profoundly in the present day.

䞀方、ハリ゚ット・A・ワシントンの『Renaissance Men』は、19䞖玀半ばから20䞖玀半ばに至るたでの物語を通じお、先駆的な業瞟を残しながらも歎史の陰に埋もれおきた3人の黒人医垫たちを顕地し、その意矩は珟代においおもなお深く共鳎するものずなっおいる。

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映画レビュヌ「プラクティカル・マゞック2」はオリゞナルの呪文曞にずどたるべきだった

C1Sep 11
Thieves steal four Renoir paintings from a French museum; two remain missing.

Thieves steal four Renoir paintings from a French museum; two remain missing.

Thieves steal four Renoir paintings from a French museum; two remain missing.

C1Sep 8