New Book Releases: April 13, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT, A.E. Osworth. An elite video game coder finds protection from a mysterious group known as the Sixsterhood after she is doxxed for reporting her harassment. “Osworth offers a sharp take on the deeply disturbing misogyny that lurks online as well as a hopeful look at combatting it,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

ANTIQUITIES, Cynthia Ozick. An elderly WASP trustee at a now-defunct all boys school prepares his memoirs, remembering the antisemitism that pervaded the school and his encounters with a mysterious older pupil. The New Yorker calls it “brisk,” writing that “Ozick’s book about a man ensnared by history is at once a warning against the hazards of nostalgia and an invitation to take a longer view of how we got to where we are.” Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

WHAT COMES AFTER, JoAnne Tompkins. A beautiful, heart-wrenching novel about a community coming to terms with grief after one local teenager kills…