James Hamblin explains why he stopped showering five years ago and argues that our modern idea of extreme hygiene has gone a little overboard.
With the world teetering on the brink of the political, social, environmental and medical abyss, The Unreality of Memory is a book for our times.
How will the universe end? Astrophysicist Katie Mack takes a humorous and authoritative look at this intriguing question in her new book, The End of Everything.
Oliver Broudy weaves history, science, nature and psychology into a narrative about environmental illness with a good old-fashioned road trip as its backbone.
Mike Birbiglia describes his reluctant journey to fatherhood in a truly special audiobook interspersed with short poems by his wife, J. Hope Stein.
In Lawns Into Meadows, Owen Wormser shows us how to forgo grass in favor of native plant meadows, a more climate-friendly option for your green space.
Chicano Eats brings Esteban Castillo’s work to print in festive color, highlighting the ingredients, kitchen tools and playful hybridity of Chicano cooking.
Casper ter Kuile argues that any habit or practice can become sacred through ritual, allowing us to develop our own modern versions of spiritual life.
This courageous memoir is an excellent jumping-off point for important conversations about race and the history of the American penal system.
This electrifying narrative provides an up-close look at Jobs while exploring timeless questions about family, loyalty and love.
The mistakes in judgment that led to the United States invasion of Iraq are richly documented in Robert Draper’s To Start a War.
Tony Wagner examines the ways in which the structures of American education fail to respect the individuality of each student in his memoir, Learning by Heart.
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