What makes this book memorable is Wilkerson’s extraordinary narrative gift, as she pairs research with stories that illustrate the impact of the caste system.
Analytical yet lyrical, Seager’s memoir examines the parallels between searching for new life in the multiverse and starting over with a new life on Earth.
Jeff Hobbs drills down into the second-largest school district in the U.S. to shine an intimate light on a few senior boys in two very different high schools.
Macdonald’s bite-size essays offer meditations on home, placelessness, the refugee crisis and climate change, all projected through animals.
Eula Biss blends research, reflection and richly rendered personal experience into a compulsively readable memoir about money, art and capitalism.
Mixing essays, poetry and images, Claudia Rankine’s new book, Just Us, asks how our notions of whiteness play out in these United States.
Written in Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa’s honest, passionate voice, this memoir is, quite simply, beautiful.
Art history buffs or anyone who likes a good thriller will enjoy ArtCurious, a fascinating, lively take on a topic that is too often reduced to dry facts.
The essays in World of Wonders are as sparkling as an armful of glass bangles and as colorful as peacocks.
The Art of Cake is a whimsically illustrated book about cake, with precise physical descriptions of and historical and cultural context for 50 cakes.
Kate Sekules brings a refreshingly fierce voice to this manifesto about the wastefulness and exploitative practices of the fashion industry.
The Erratics is an unflinching and empathetic memoir of past trauma and new outrage, dotted with precious moments of rueful levity and fleeting beauty.
In Work Mate Marry Love, Debora L. Spar examines historical links between technology, gender, work and family to imagine what the future might look like.
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