When the world seems full of impassable obstacles, ‘The Life of Frederick Douglass’ is a helpful reminder of how to knock them down.
Barry Gewen’s intellectual biography of Henry Kissinger is meticulously researched, consistently stimulating and deeply insightful.
Thompson-Hernández’s Compton Cowboys makes room for tough questions about bias, inequality and the future of the black cowboy tradition.
As Clare Carlisle demonstrates in Philosopher of the Heart, reading Kierkegaard is much like reading a good novel or a thoughtful poem.
Helen Hamilton Gardener may be the most famous suffrage activist you’ve never heard of, and Free Thinker is the compelling narrative of her life.
At the center of Hidden Valley Road are 12 children, six schizophrenia diagnoses and two parents navigating a meager mental health care system in America.
In an elegant blend of literary criticism and personal memoir, Mark Doty chronicles his deeply personal relationship to the work of Walt Whitman.
An impassioned investigation of Lorraine Hansberry, who deserves to be remembered for much more than her iconic play, A Raisin in the Sun.
A no-holds-barred reevaluation of the classic series and the family that inspired it.
Franklin traces the roots of Jackson’s dark aesthetic, which mined the tensions of wifehood in postwar America and her own tumultuous marriage.
Daugherty’s brisk and fluid book contains a plethora of interesting topics for conversation.
Adam Hochschild turns his brilliant narrative eye to Rose Pastor Stokes, the labor activist and real-life “Cinderella of the Ghetto,” in Rebel Cinderella.
This new biography captures the captivating contradictions of Dorothy Day as she became the leader of the Catholic Worker peace and justice movement.
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