Literary Fall Preview: New Novels by Irving, McEwan, Egan and more

There are seven years when John Irving’s latest work remained unpublished, a silence cherished by devoted readers. Now he returns with a tale of love, sex, and politics titled The Last Chairlift, set in 1940s Aspen, Colorado. Following La cucaracha, a satire on Brexit and Europe’s populist mood, Ian McEwan releases Lecciones, a story about a man haunted by a past trauma with his piano teacher. Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan presents La casa de caramel, a novel about the digital age and the pressures of modern life, while Antonio Muñoz Molina offers I will not see you die, published by Seix Barral, and Virginia Despentes brings Dear scumbag, a novel exploring cancellation culture and dependency. This autumn, readers also anticipate a new course with a fresh selection in hand.