This literary companion to a much heralded NPR series brings female artists to the forefront to celebrate their artistry and skill.
Rob Sheffield’s kaleidoscopic, wildly enthusiastic biography, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem, will satisfy both superfans and those less familiar with the prolific phenom Taylor Swift.
Christopher Bollen’s creepy and snarky suspense novel Havoc tracks a dangerously escalating feud between an 81-year-old woman and a little boy.
While the masterful poems in Grace Notes evoke the specific history of her mother’s life, Nye never leaves readers out of the frame, encouraging them to ask questions and think deeply.
Paleoecologist Kathy Willis explores the surprising physiological and psychological benefits of plants on human health in her entertaining, absorbing Good Nature.
James Chappel’s thought-provoking Golden Years offers strategies to understand and address the needs of America’s aging population.
As good poetry often does, Forest of Noise will require you to ask some of the most difficult questions of our time: What kind of world are we living in? What kind of world are we leaving to the children?
Dust captures teenage longing, confusion and hope in a realistic and heartwarming way.
TV chef Miriam Quinones-Smith has three mysteries to solve in the engaging and endlessly interesting Dominoes, Danzon, and Death.
Frank DeCaro has crafted a visual and written love letter to everything disco that encourages us to recognize how music both creates and reflects culture—and will make you want to bop and boogie.
Eliot Stein’s vivid Custodians of Wonder documents the last people maintaining some of the world’s ancient cultural traditions, and proves that comfort, community and beauty never get old.
Juhea Kim’s City of Night Birds reverently celebrates dance, describing ballet technique, culture and history so vividly that they will quickly become meaningful to an unfamiliar reader.
Casa Susanna is a sumptuous volume of photography that chronicles a midcentury trans enclave.
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