When the world seems full of impassable obstacles, ‘The Life of Frederick Douglass’ is a helpful reminder of how to knock them down.
Barry Gewen’s intellectual biography of Henry Kissinger is meticulously researched, consistently stimulating and deeply insightful.
Phuc Tran has written the great punk rock immigrant story and the best, the funniest and the most heartfelt memoir of the year.
Svenja O’Donnell uncovers long-held family secrets, interspersing her own research and travel with stories from her German mother and grandmother.
Thompson-Hernández’s Compton Cowboys makes room for tough questions about bias, inequality and the future of the black cowboy tradition.
Cody Cassidy delves deep into our primordial past and profiles 17 ancient individuals whom he deems responsible for humankind’s greatest firsts.
Kathryn Harkup unearths the science and stagecraft behind the more than 250 deaths Shakespeare’s characters experience or inflict.
Dirt is a funny, irreverent and obsessive account of Bill Buford’s five-year odyssey to discover everything about French food.
Stephanie Danler ranges over the whole of her life as the daughter of two parents who failed to provide their offspring with a safe and loving home.
Beloved crime novelist Laura Lippman has now written a smart, thoughtful, sometimes vulnerable, always witty collection of essays.
As Clare Carlisle demonstrates in Philosopher of the Heart, reading Kierkegaard is much like reading a good novel or a thoughtful poem.
Wendy Williams turns her attention to humanity’s long-standing love of all things Lepidoptera in The Language of Butterflies.
Morgan Jerkins recounts her journey to uncover the meaning of stories from millions of African Americans who moved north during the Great Migration.
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