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.
Saskia Maarleveld gives the darker moments of Carrie Fisher’s life the weight they deserve while ably delivering her jokes.
Alexis Coe moves past the well-worn tropes we’ve come to associate with George Washington and paints a cheeky portrait of a man we may think we already know.
Providing a deeply personal look at a dark chapter in history, Hurston’s book is revelatory.
The first substantial biography of Douglass in almost 25 years, Blight’s important book rightfully won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History.
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