Stephen King, María Moreno, and Martín Kohan are among the 20 new books of June.

The new releases for June are already on the shelves of bookstores, and halfway through the year means there's still plenty of good stuff out there and plenty left to be amazed by. This month, there are new novels by Martín Kohan, a chilling story by Stephen King , and the debut fiction novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk . There are also chronicles by María Moreno, Jon Lee Anderson , and Josefina Licitra , as well as a book of chronicles by Juan Forn.

In her dogged effort to recover from a stroke that paralyzed her right side from face to toe, María Moreno observes what is happening to her own body and that of those around her in the ICU, the rooms of a clinic besieged by Covid, and the room where the physical therapists torture her with the motor command: walk!

From the paid sex that the bedridden can aspire to, the "disca" influencers on TikTok, the pros and cons of amputating a limb to fit a carbon hook, to the change in style resulting from the practical feat of writing with the left hand that mutilates the baroque that was her trademark...

With biting ferocity and a devilish, novel tenderness toward herself, this cardinal author pushes the fate of all Spanish-language literature of recent decades to the brink. Against the abyss of herself, the abyss of a language. Faced with the emptiness of a new existence, the gesture of looking at herself reflects the extreme vulnerability of the species. And its stubborn desire to live.

“When a Russian says their country has all the elements in Mendeleev's table, they're not just talking about minerals, and that's the idea of ​​Russianness that those of us who are struck by this fever seek: that insane emotional thermometer that goes up and down the thermal scale beyond conceivable.”

In her last meeting with Juan Forn, Sylvia Iparraguirre recounts that he confided in her: “I have a short novel; it will be the introduction to the Russian back covers.” “Tell it to me,” she said. The story was literary. Reproduced here in Iparraguirre's magnificent prologue, it serves as the perfect introduction to this collection of texts Forn wrote about Russian authors in his celebrated back covers , in the long notes in the Radar supplement, and in several book prologues. Why I Like Russians So Much answers the question Forn asked himself when he reconnected with that unique breed of writer in his new life in Villa Gesell, where he moved after suffering from pancreatitis in 2001.

There he became an even more voracious reader, fully dedicated to what he was most passionate about: pulling together stories that intertwined tragedy and comedy, biography and literary essay, ordinary beings and extraordinary characters that seemed to be waiting to be told by his marvelous imagination as a novelist and his precision as a great storyteller.

His fervor for the Russians encapsulates the author of María Domecq's admiration for a particular ethic and aesthetic, for the primordial place given in those lands to art and literature, to freedom and joy, and to heroism in the struggle against all oppressive power. This new collection allows us to appreciate his constant search for the perfect tone, one that brings him closer to an ever-widening reading public eager to follow the conversation he proposed. This book, published posthumously by Emecé with beautiful illustrations by Miguel Rep , is an invitation to continue this exchange.

Something is happening in the heart of the Los Talas ranch. Locked away, inaccessible, a mysterious man writes. In the countryside, a wild and lascivious gang curiously peers into the dim light that is turned on at night. A woman will be granted access to the mansion, where she will find shelter from the vulgar and barbaric elements and escape in pursuit of a lost love.

In In The Captives , Martín Kohan enlivens the inextinguishable flame of the organizing antagonism of the national narratives: civilization and barbarism. Inspired by Esteban Echeverría and his characters, tradition, founding myth, and the origins of Argentine literature find their astonishing rewriting in this epigonal novel.

What remains of the smoke when it dissipates? In Smoke , John Berger —one of the most lucid and provocative voices in contemporary European thought—turns smoke into a living metaphor for the modern world. Through brief aphorisms and poetic reflections, Berger explores how the perception of the act of smoking has changed over time, revealing, in that change, the tensions between what we were and what we are.

Published as part of DÚO, the publishing brand's collection that offers books conceived as works of art where text and image interact in a unique way, Humo offers an aesthetic experience as intimate as it is profound.

Smoke also features special illustrations by Selçuk Demirel (1954), a Turkish artist who has lived in Paris since 1978. With more than 50 published books and an internationally recognized career, his drawings have appeared in publications such as Le Monde, The New York Times, Time, and The Nation. His evocative and subtle images complement and enhance the reflective tone of the text.

When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a letter from someone who intends to "kill thirteen innocent people and one guilty person" to atone for a needless death, Detective Izzy Jaynes doesn't know what to think. Are they about to murder fourteen people out of revenge?

Worried, she decides to turn to Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, women's rights activist Kate McKay embarks on a speaking tour, attracting as many supporters as detractors. Someone vehemently opposed to her message attacks her events, and while no one is hurt at first, the harasser becomes increasingly bold, and Holly Gibney is contacted to protect Kate.

With a fascinating cast of familiar and new characters, these two narrative threads come together in a chilling and spectacular tapestry.

Land of Empusas is Olga Tokarczuk 's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2018. The Polish author weaves a subversive homage to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain from a contemporary perspective, magnificently disturbing and with an immersive narrative pulse that once again confirms her as one of today's most original writers.

Görbensdorf, Lower Silesia, 1913. The young Polish engineering student Miecysław Wojnicz arrives at the local sanatorium in search of fresh air and a cure for his tuberculosis. He stays at Wilhelm Opitz's boarding house for men, where he meets other sick people from all over Europe. In the evenings, intoxicated by liquor, the guests converse about the divine and the human. Will there be war on the continent? Are women born inferior? Do demons exist? Is monarchy or democracy preferable? When reading a text of unknown authorship, can one deduce whether it was written by a man or a woman?

Meanwhile, in this idyllic setting, disturbing things are happening: the wife of the boarding house owner apparently recently committed suicide, rumors are circulating of violent deaths in the surrounding mountains, and the presence of someone or something is sensing itself, watching and lurking.

Spring arrives in the remote north of Sweden, but darkness lurks in the heart of the small village of Gasskas. When Lisbeth Salander 's teenage niece, Svala, joins a group of activists opposing the reopening of a mine, the protests remain peaceful—until a journalist investigating the case is found dead. Salander is forced to intervene.

Mikael Blomkvist, who has just joined the local newspaper, begins an investigation that threatens to uncover a scandal of massive proportions. Mikael, Salander, and Svala will join forces once again as they try to track down the whereabouts of the hacker Plague, whose mysterious disappearance adds another mystery to the case. Any help is needed: they face a group willing to resort to extreme measures to defend their interests, and they will soon see that among the terrible secrets of the old mine lie their worst enemies.

The best of the Millennium universe: intelligent, compulsive reading, and probably with the most ruthless villain in the entire series.

Josefina Licitra publishes an article about her father, who barely speaks to her and has lived in Europe since leaving Argentina as a political exile in 1978. In this article, she reconstructs part of her family history and tries to understand why her father has stopped speaking to her and "how distance breeds an abrasive silence, capable of eroding bonds that, culturally, are designed to withstand almost anything."

The note is the final blow that shatters their shared past: from that moment on, he cancels it, and she is paralyzed, unable to write again. Until she learns of her father's imminent trip to Buenos Aires and begins a diary, awaiting his arrival.

The Ignorant Teacher is an essay about elementary school written from what should be the most logical and yet the least common perspective: that of a teacher. The first-person perspective and the appeal to school experiences from this perspective are key: one of the questions underlying the entire essay is why the voice of the teacher, the centerpiece of elementary school, is missing from social discourse, saturated with the opinions of academics, researchers, politicians, journalists, and even parents.

Opinions are cast on the teacher, on what she should do, on what she suffers, on what she achieves despite everything, in a generally paternalistic tone that praises her figure from the perspective of vocation and sacrifice, but she is never consulted as an authority in her own field. This essay aims to open a conversation that unravels this misunderstanding, to build an urgent alliance that recovers, for the school, a sense of what we share.

In 1880, Buenos Aires was no longer that peaceful Great Village, shaken only by the occasional clatter of a streetcar or carriage. A quarter of its inhabitants were immigrants living in boarding houses, clinging to the dream of a better future. In the heart of this dazzling and uneven urban landscape, a tragedy began to unfold. In a tenement in the Barrio Norte neighborhood, a crime shattered the fragile coexistence of the tenants and shook the Neapolitan community.

The body lies in the courtyard, and speculation swirls around it: revenge, jealousy, settling of scores, resentment? Everyone seems to have something to hide. Piecing together what happened will be a journey through clues, secrets, and unexpected twists.

The characters are pieces of a puzzle that the reader must piece together, doubting each one. Who is the victim? What mysteries are hidden behind the masks imposed by the crime? Masterfully rescued by Daniel Balmaceda from forgotten documents, this vertiginous true story, narrated with suspense and meticulous skill, dusts off traces of the past to portray a turbulent, inaugural, and profoundly revealing era of Argentine culture.

Every proverb has its flip side: to the well-intentioned "Never judge a book by its cover," one might well counter the cynical "As you are seen, so you are treated." From childhood in the United States, Jhumpa Lahiri experienced this tension firsthand. The gaze of others fell on her Bengali clothing, proudly imposed by a recently emigrated mother. Jhumpa envied her cousins ​​in Calcutta, who were protected by regal school uniforms that softened their differences. As an adult, having become a renowned author, these prejudices and exoticism persisted, albeit in another form: it was the covers of her books—not her clothes—that spoke for her. In each reissue and translation, her face and name were interpreted, labeled, by anonymous designers who placed her in an unrecognizable, alien place.

In this brief but powerful essay, Lahiri reflects on the construction of the image—authorial, editorial, and, ultimately, aesthetic—and its impact on both literature and the artist's subjectivity. The attire in books is a eulogy to the uniform, but also an inquiry into identity: how it is formed, how it is represented, and what role clothing, design, and language, both verbal and visual, play in this process.

Kelly Kelleher, a young, attractive, and intelligent woman, and a renowned Democratic senator, meet at an exclusive Fourth of July party on Grayling Island. There's no indication that this chance encounter will end tragically when the senator's car, drunk and with Kelly at his side, skids around a curve on an unnamed road and plunges into a muddy river in the dead of night. But there's every reason to believe that after the accident, the only thing that will surface is the senator's impunity.

A revealing and necessary novel, capable of stirring deep emotions, Black Water is a fundamental book in the career of Joyce Carol Oates , which is more relevant today than ever.

The Buenos Aires University Press - Eudeba - and Ediciones UNL published Generation 94. Conversations with men and women who reformed the Rodis Recalt Constitution .

A series of interviews with key figures in the 1994 Constitutional Convention (aimed at reforming the Constitution) reveals the difficult path to consensus in a society accustomed to navigating conflicts and animosities.

Names that still hold prominence in the country's political scene today (such as Raúl Alfonsín, Carlos Menem, Antonio Cafiero, Elisa Carrió, Chacho Álvarez, Horacio Rosatti, Jesús Rodríguez, Eduardo Duhalde, Cristina Kirchner, and Aldo Rico) are evoked in these stories, which are now renewed in relevance and have become fundamental.

The New Earth, by Italian Sebastiano Mauri, narrates in a very graphic and honest way the journey of inner transformation he embarked on when he began experimenting with ayahuasca during a stay in the Peruvian Amazon.

An experience that led him to question whether he had truly embraced his gay identity as he believed, and also to rethink his way of relating as a white, Western man to the world we inhabit.

However, far from the solemn tone, the author navigates the deep waters of this revelation with brutal sincerity and also a great deal of humor.

Is intelligence's days numbered? A thought-provoking and humorous essay that reflects on the unstoppable (and not always tragic) rise of stupidity.

Pino Aprile proposes a provocative and surprising theory: in the modern world, stupidity is not an evolutionary defect, but an adaptive advantage. Just as natural selection stripped our ancestors of their tails and body hair, cultural selection tends to reduce the intellectual capacities that have allowed us to survive for millennia. And this isn't necessarily bad news for our species.

In dialogue with the ideas of Darwin and Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz, Aprile invites us to reflect on a disturbing paradox: the intelligent have built the world, but it is the imbeciles who triumph and enjoy it. To do so, he unfolds five fundamental laws that reveal how the hierarchical and bureaucratic systems of our era reward mediocrity and punish talent. And so, through an analysis as insightful as it is laced with irony, he ventures an uncomfortable hypothesis: "Our survival now depends on imbecility, no matter how much it annoys the remaining intelligent people."

From South America to the Middle East, via North America, the national drink of Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay is the protagonist of multiple stories and experiences, breaking down political, cultural, and even religious boundaries. In The Book of Yerba Mate , Christine Folch analyzes who drinks it, why, and how the history of a brew can be nothing less than the history of the construction of the modern world.

In the 1970s, a very young Jon Lee Anderson decides to travel from Exeter, where he has just finished high school, to Togo, Africa, to meet his idolized older sister. He sports long hair, a scruffy beard, and wears painted white bell-bottoms. With his partner John and two hundred dollars in traveler's checks, he sets off on a hitchhiking adventure. The result is this wonderful story: a hilarious and endearing piece about a free and adventurous youth, long before the internet age. The making of a great journalist.

Job was written in 1930 and is inspired by the biblical character. Set in Eastern Europe, it chronicles the living conditions of the Jews, in a modern analogy to the biblical story. Centered on the life of Mendel Singer, a man who consistently describes himself as pious and good, the recurring theme is the absence of God and the lack of divine justice that can protect us from life's calamities. The question that constantly arises in Mendel's tormented life is why, if he adheres to all the precepts prescribed by religion, his life is always surrounded by tragedy.

A woman, married to the youngest son of a family consisting of five sisters and a brother, suspects that her husband has been kept secret from her. What if he's the son of one of the girls? What if he's the fruit of an affair by the head of the household? Through this delicate and diffuse lens, the exercise of domestic doubt, Nora Mazziotti constructs a unique narrator, capable of turning curiosity into a highly effective instrument of observation.

The Other Sisters-In-Law proposes a journey into the prehistory of feminism, when bonds and dazzlement were born in the breeding ground of oppression. With a unique mastery of weaving together genres considered "feminine," from gossip to the diary, Nora Mazziotti proves once again that she, like her protagonist, is a keen observer of the passions that slip away amidst housework, childrearing, and irreparable forgetfulness.

Daily life often accustoms us to unhealthy routines and habits. Today, no one hesitates to seek immediate solutions to the consequences of various illnesses, poor diet, fatigue, overwork, sedentary lifestyles, etc.; few, however, seek the solution in one of life's most important natural restoratives: sleep.

Almost like a healing oasis, designed to replenish both the body's vital functions and the spiritual needs of the soul, sleep is a cornerstone of good health and a philosopher's stone for achieving balance. In this context, Dr. Analía Furio 's new work is essential reading for all those who want not only to deeply understand the mechanisms of sleep, but also to take action and eradicate the habits of poor sleepers once and for all.