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.
Sara Schaefer’s writing is radiant, whether she’s describing the wonder of the Grand Canyon or her early years as a stand-up comedian in New York City.
Memorial Drive is the harrowing, poetic story of Natasha Trethewey’s deepening love for her mother, which has survived long after her mother’s death.
Is Rape a Crime? blends Michelle Bowdler’s own narrative with detailed research about how law enforcement—from crime labs to individual cops—fail rape victims.
To understand Teddy Roosevelt and his passion for American wilderness, David Gessner digs into a cultural and political history as complex as Roosevelt himself.
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