This Spring’s Best New Books Start With a Journey
Whether grimly global or inspirationally intimate, these fiction and nonfiction books hold stories that will move you this season.
Illustration: Nolan Pelletier for Bloomberg Businessweek
The season’s best books deftly take big picture issues (everything from fame to climate change to Washington’s lobbying industry) and bring them down to a human scale. Most important, each is a truly great read—novels and nonfiction that will be part of the conversation for years to come.
The House of Hidden Meanings
By RuPaul (Out now, Dey Street Books)
Billed as a memoir, this breezy rags-to-riches story is also a business how-to. It begins with RuPaul’s early life in Southern California, moves on to Atlanta (for money, he would drive exotic autos between states for his car dealer brother-in-law) and ends just after he’s made it big as the first internationally famous mainstream drag queen.