Reviews of notable new fiction and nonfiction.  Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch (Grove). This unsettling dystopian novel, which won the 2023 Booker Prize, imagines an Ireland that has fallen into totalitarianism. Its story centers on one family; the father, a union official, is disappeared after being accused of sedition, leading his wife to attempt to get their children out of the country by legal means, and then—once she fails—to resort to underground methods. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. How to Build a Boat, by Elaine Feeney (Biblioasis). In this novel, by a noted poet, a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old named Jamie fixates on building a perpetual-motion machine, imagining that, if he creates one that moves “at the same speed in a continual motion,” as his late mother did in a video of herself swimming, it will connect him to her. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. The Money Kings, by Daniel Schulman (Knopf). This sweeping history focusses on German Jewish banking families in nineteenth-century New York, whose firms—among them Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers—helped define the modern financial system. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. About Ed, by Robert Glück (New York Review Books). The Ed of the title of this memoir, by a pioneer of the New Narrative movement, is Ed Aulerich-Sugai, the author’s ex-lover and longtime friend, who died of AIDS in 1994. Glück documents how he and Ed, a couple for ten years, struggled to reconcile their differing views on monogamy. Buy now on Amazon or Bookshop. What are you reading this week? Reply to let us know. | 
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