Benjamin Moser’s biography Sontag: Her Life and Work reveals with illuminating clarity Susan Sontag’s ceaseless quest to understand and be understood.
Megan Phelps-Roper writes movingly about the searing pain of separation from those she continues to love—the notorious Westboro Baptist Church.
In Think Black, Clyde W. Ford blends personal experience with technological and racial history to reveal how these things influenced one another.
Nefertiti Austin provides valuable firsthand insight into what it means to be a black single mother and to reject the constraints of societal expectations.
Leslie Jamison explores longing, connection and distance in 14 breathtaking essays.
Award-winning poet Saeed Jones weaves a series of stinging, memorable vignettes into a powerful coming-of-age memoir.
Dan Kois, his wife and their two children did what many families secretly dream of doing: They packed up their belongings and spent a year living abroad.
NPR correspondent Aarti Namdev Shahani recounts her family’s gut-wrenching struggle to immigrate despite a broken system.
Gender Mosaic demolishes the warped science that claimed to have located the gender binary inside our skulls.
Fair Play starts from the premise that men’s and women’s time are of equal worth, no matter who makes more money or stays home with the kids.
The Day It Finally Happens is composed of 19 different apocalyptic scenarios, as Mike Pearl assesses each event’s real-world plausibility.
This is no dry, boring tome: Dan Jones dazzles readers with this fascinating look at the Crusades.
In Burn It Down, edited by Lilly Dancyger, 22 women writers contributed essays about their anger.
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