All the Living and the Dead shines a light on those with a tenderness for death, and Hayley Campbell is an equally entertaining and sensitive guide.
Numbing and mind-blowing in equal measure, Survival of the Richest reveals how tech billionaires are planning to survive a global apocalypse.
Strangers to Ourselves is a stunning book about people whose experiences of mental illness exceed the limits of Western psychiatry.
Raising Lazarus, Beth Macy’s follow-up to Dopesick, will radically change your opinions on the opioid crisis.
Though Nuar Alsadir set out to write a book about laughter, Animal Joy is a far deeper study of how we express and understand our most powerful emotions.
Hernández displays impressive storytelling skills in this masterfully researched volume about a rare disease, which won the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.
Linda Villarosa‘s wonderfully written book makes stunning points about the health risks of racism amid moving narratives of real people‘s experiences.
It’s impossible to read Anita Hannig’s The Day I Die without being moved. It will make you reconsider how dying could and should be.
Angela Garbes swoops from the universal to the intimate as she offers a vision of mothering that would improve our individual and collective lives.
Former librarian Amanda Oliver quickly learned that her job was as much about performing the work of a social worker—without any training—as it was about books.
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