Leila Slimani collects Moroccan women’s testimonies, woven together with her own reflections on Morocco’s social attitudes toward sex, in Sex and Lies.
Betsy Bonner explores her sister’s unsettling life and death with laser-sharp prose in The Book of Atlantis Black.
How did brooding, solitary private eye character come to rule the crime scene? Susanna Lee sheds light on the mystery.
I find Rebecca Gibel’s narration to be hypnotic in its dryness, allowing me to reprioritize and realign where I give my focus.
For readers interested in thinking critically about American history, this is a good start.
Judith Martin’s arch, acid wit laces every lesson on behaving with propriety in a culture where monstrous jerks are, more than ever, on parade and in power.
Samantha Irby is already funny on the page, but she has a special gift for comedic delivery, and her narration adds even more laughs.
Christine Buckley takes us deep into the practice of herbalism, showing us how to cultivate a meaningful relationship with the plant life around us.
When you’ve got a cult following like Duke’s Mayonnaise, you do whatever you want—like show up in a recipe for peppermint fudge brownies.
A sobering, expansive study of discrimination and nativism, but also eminently readable thanks to Okrent’s accessible writing style.
Literary critic Rachel Cohen’s incisive memoir explores her immersion into Jane Austen’s work during a fraught period in her personal life.
This absorbing look at a pivotal point in civil rights activity before the 1950s and ’60s is well done and should be of interest to us all.
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