Tony Wagner examines the ways in which the structures of American education fail to respect the individuality of each student in his memoir, Learning by Heart.
Kid Quixotes weaves together the narrative of Stephen Haff’s teaching career and the stories of his students from the Latinx immigrant community.
Divided into comical essays and sincere meditations, Why Did I Get a B? provides an accurate depiction of how many teachers feel about their careers.
In The Unidentified, Colin Dickey introduces readers to lesser known yet delightfully named phenomena, like the 1876 Great Kentucky Meat Shower.
William Deresiewicz’s wide-ranging, vividly written new book focuses on how big tech and big money—the new economy—are devastating artists and the arts.
Rebecca Giggs unlocks how humans have engaged nature—tales of greed, aggression, wonder, desperation, longing, nostalgia, love, curiosity and obsession.
In Unspeakable Acts, editor and author Sarah Weinman has curated an excellent anthology of 13 of the best articles and essays on true crime.
Inferno is a memoir of Catherine Cho’s harrowing journey through postpartum psychosis, beginning one morning when time and self suddenly unspooled.
Emily Levesque trains her gaze on humans’ fascination with the stars in this engaging look at the field of astronomy and its practitioners.
In Looking for Miss America, historian Margot Mifflin encourages us to view Miss America as more complicated than just sashes, hairspray and high heels.
In Horse Crazy, Sarah Maslin Nir turns the investigative lens on herself, exploring why she and so many others share this equine obsession.
A hapless road trip with eccentric, iconic Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges anchors Jay Parini’s novelistic coming-of-age memoir.
Two Trees Make a Forest charts Jessica J. Lee’s ardent quest to discover and reconcile her family’s past with her need to claim an ancestral home in Taiwan.
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