Babel Spiegel & Grau • Ray McMillian is a

• Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world

Sol selects the ten most worthy semidioses to compete in The Sunbearer Trials

One of the New York Times’s Best Crime Novels of the Year • A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night

Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years

Babel Spiegel & Grau • Ray McMillian is aFrom award winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History? and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the