UNBELIEVABLE
Sept. 13
Based on Pulitzer
Prize–winning
journalism, this
miniseries follows a
teen (Kaitlyn Dever)
charged with falsely
reporting a rape,
while two detectives
in another state (Toni
Collette and Merritt
Wever) investigate a
series of assaults that
share eerily similar
details. (Netflix)HUSTLERS
Sept. 13
In 2015, New York
published a story
about strippers who
conned Wall Street fat
cats. Constance Wu
and Jennifer Lopez
star in this adaptation
alongside
Cardi B,
a former
stripper
herself.RED AT THE BONE
Jacqueline Woodson
Sept. 17
The latest adult novel
from Woodson, author
of the award-winning
middle-grade memoir
Brown Girl Dreaming,
traces the impact of
an unplanned teenage
pregnancy on three
generations of a black
American family.AD ASTRA
Sept. 20
A space engineer
(Brad Pitt) ventures
to the outer edges of
the solar system totrack down his father
(Tommy Lee Jones),
who disappeared
on a similar mission
20 years earlier.MAKE IT SCREAM,
MAKE IT BURN
Leslie Jamison
Sept. 24
These 14 essays
cover subjects
ranging from the
Sri Lankan civil war
to lonely whales,
pulling from Jamison’s
experiences to
explore questions like
“Why do we want what
we can’t have?”MIXED-ISH
Sept. 24
The black-ish universe
expands with a
prequel set in the
1980s about young
Bow (played as an
adult by Tracee Ellis
Ross) when her family
moves from a hippie
commune to the
suburbs. (ABC)THE DUTCH HOUSE
Ann Patchett
Sept. 24
In her follow-up
to 2016’s
Commonwealth,
Patchett again
explores the tenuous
nature of familial
bonds. This time, the
story follows a pair of
siblings whose lives
are upended when
their father remarries.JUDY
Sept. 27
Renée Zellweger plays
a struggling Judy
Garland, decades
after The Wizard of Oz,
who takes on a run of
London performances
that would turn out to
be among her last.GODFATHER OF
HARLEM
Sept. 29
Oscar winner Forest
Whitaker plays the
infamous ’60s crime
boss Bumpy Johnson,
struggling to
retake the
streets of
Harlem
after his
release from
prison. (Epix)JOKER
Oct. 4
Joaquin Phoenix steps
into a role played by
Jack Nicholson, Heath
Ledger and many
others for an origin
story that imagines
the villain as an
aspiring comedian.BATWOMAN
Oct. 6
Orange Is the New
Black star Ruby Rose
will play television’s
first openly lesbian
superhero in a series
that expands the DC
Comics small-screen
repertoire. (The CW)△
GEMINI MAN
Oct. 11
Brokeback Mountain
director Ang Li uses
CG visual effects to
pit Will Smith, playing
an aging government
assassin, against
a younger version
of himself—a clone
created 25 years ago.CELESTIAL BODIES
Jokha Alharthi
Oct. 15
Three Omani sisters
grapple with love
and loss as the oil
industry takes hold
of their country. The
novel is the first to be
originally published
in Arabic and win
the Man Booker
International Prize.OLIVE, AGAIN
Elizabeth Strout
Oct. 15
A new set of
interlinking stories
welcomes readers
back to Crosby,
Maine, the home of
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sept. 24
In June, the
award-winning
author of
Between the
World and
Me made a
powerful
testimony to
Congress on
reparations
and what is
owed to black
Americans. His
debut novel
examines the
country’s racist
past through
the eyes of a
young slave
who makes
the dangerous
decision to
escape his
Virginia
plantation
following a
near-death
experience.