In the inspirational The Garden Against Time, Olivia Laing restores a long-neglected garden, and makes a case for sharing our outdoor spaces.
Interesting, insightful and impressively intrepid, Frostbite offers compelling food for thought about the role of cold in our lives.
Vicki Valosik’s captivating Swimming Pretty charts the evolution of women’s swimming and aquatic performance.
You can’t help but root for the glamorous gentleman jewel thief at the center of Dean Jobb’s immersive true crime saga, the aptly titled A Gentleman and a Thief.
An ecological engineer travels the world to learn how technology can address urban eco-crises in the approachable The Nature of Our Cities.
For centuries, women were discouraged from running. Better Faster Farther chronicles how and why they ran anyway.
In the entertaining Stowaway, Joe Shute explores and exalts the resilient, cooperative, derided and, ultimately, misunderstood rat.
Madhumita Murgia’s bracing Code Dependent puts human faces to debates about AI’s perils and promises, revealing both the potential harm and good that this technology can do.
The Secret Garden meets Nora Ephron in Priyanka Mattoo’s riotously funny memoir in essays, Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones.
With the exquisite Night Flyer, Tiya Miles looks at Harriet Tubman from an entirely new perspective: her spirituality.
In White Poverty, William J. Barber II urges poor white and Black people to unite against the policies that favor the rich and powerful.
Blame the Stars, by the creator of popular Instagram account @Horror.Scoops, provides offbeat takes on astrology that will keep readers giggling and contemplating their next steps in life.
Why We Photograph Animals encourages us to think deeply about the creatures that share our world—and our responsibilities toward them and our planet.
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