Look for these upcoming April book releases

Reading

• Yesteryear (releasing April 7). Natalie Mills acts out tradwife bliss for her vast social media audience, kneading dough and raising children on-camera while tending to the political ambitions of her husband. Her frustrations escalate with a jolt of terror when she wakes up on a frontier farm in 1855. Read more.

• London Falling (releasing April 7). Lauded New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe peels away layers surrounding the perplexing 2019 death of a London teenager. Keefe moves his characters among a Cubist plot, portraying a global capital’s criminal underworld, deceit and corruption at the heart of institutions, and a mother and father’s unwavering quest for the truth. Read more.

• Transcription (releasing April 7). During Covid-19 lockdowns, a magazine writer visits Thomas, his celebrated nonagenarian mentor and an European expat, intending to interview him for a career retrospective; the narrator drops his recorder into a sink and is unable to record perhaps the intellectual titan’s final word to the world. Read more.

Watching

• Bloodhounds. When Bloodhounds hit Netflix in 2023, the pandemic-set Korean drama about a pair of amateur boxers who take down a loan shark operation was as satisfying as it was violent. We break down of the ending of Season 2 here.

• The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson. On May 11, 2022, Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson—a rising star in the world of professional gravel cycling—was found dead in a friend’s home in Austin, Texas, fatally shot. Here's how a new documentary explores Wilson's life.

Talking About

• Bruce Springsteen opened his “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour” in Minneapolis with a rousing monologue against the man in the Oval Office. Historians may remember the performance as among the most unflinching acts of musical and theatrical resistance mounted against Donald Trump—or any president, for that matter—in the nation’s history. Read more here.

• The worst thing about the Super Mario Bros. Movie was the soundtrack full of pop hits, which completely disregarded the iconic music of the game franchise itself. Thankfully, the sequel fixes that problem.