Samantha Irby writes stunningly astute, hilarious essays about topics both serious (becoming a stepmother) and less so (her slightly lazy beauty rituals).
Bart D. Ehrman details the development of our ideas of heaven and hell and tells how they evolved in response to different cultural and historical crises.
At the center of Hidden Valley Road are 12 children, six schizophrenia diagnoses and two parents navigating a meager mental health care system in America.
In an elegant blend of literary criticism and personal memoir, Mark Doty chronicles his deeply personal relationship to the work of Walt Whitman.
Across Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa, McRay regales us with spellbinding narratives that illustrate the power of stories to reconcile.
Kreis Beall, who helped create Blackberry Farm, one of the South’s most heavenly resorts, explores in lyrical prose what happens when her life falls apart.
Kisner’s essays reflect on Kierkegaard, her early Christian conversion and waiting for the subway to guide us through our own emptiness in search of fullness.
An outstanding work of juvenile nonfiction, We Had to Be Brave tells the stories of children evacuated from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransports.
In her humorous and thoughtful memoir, Somebody’s Gotta Do It, Martini channels her outrage over the 2016 election into energy for her local government.
Listening to the audiobook feels like bingeing a few great episodes of “This American Life.”
An impassioned investigation of Lorraine Hansberry, who deserves to be remembered for much more than her iconic play, A Raisin in the Sun.
A no-holds-barred reevaluation of the classic series and the family that inspired it.
Franklin traces the roots of Jackson’s dark aesthetic, which mined the tensions of wifehood in postwar America and her own tumultuous marriage.
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