Also of interest...in posthumous treasures

The Fetishist by Katherine Min (Putnam, $28)

We’re lucky to have Katherine Min’s “fantastic, fabulous” new novel, said Marion Winik in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Discovered after her death from cancer, the action-packed story centers on a Korean-American cellist looking back on a lifetime of being fetishized by non-Asian romantic partners, but it opens with a young Japanese-American bent on murderous revenge, and it’s Nabokovian in its erudite archness. “There’s hardly a sentence— feverish and funny and razor-sharp—that does not merit quoting.”

Songs on Endless Repeat by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco, $29)

“In both his fiction and nonfiction, Anthony Veasna So’s generous writing spirit shines through,” said Daneet Steffens in The Boston Globe. The Cambodian-American author of Afterparties, a best-selling 2021 story collection published after his death at 28, also left behind the essays and unfinished novel gathered here. “Topics range from So’s youth and the pop culture that moved him to losing a friend to suicide.” Though humor pops up, the heartbreaks of recent Cambodian history are never far away.

A Hitch in Time by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $30)

Even today, reading Christopher Hitchens “makes you feel that, intellectually, you are having your tires rotated,” said Dwight Garner in The New York Times. This collection of reviews and essays, written from 1983 and 2002 for the London Review of Books, touches on subjects ranging from the Oklahoma City bombing to the radicalism of 1968 and on authors from Tom Wolfe to Isaiah Berlin. “Why care about a pile of old book reviews?” Because Hitchens, then in his prime, made even those occasions for noticing and argument.

A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel (Holt, $40)

Best known for her historical fiction, Hilary Mantel was also a brilliant cultural critic, said Malcolm Forbes in The Washington Post. Across four decades, the author of Wolf Hall amassed a mountain of published columns and reviews, and this book “gathers the best of it,” showcasing Mantel’s “inquiring mind, fierce intelligence, and shrewd way with words.” Whether she is engaging with RoboCop or Britain’s royal family, “Mantel impresses with her informed opinions and keen observations.”