I find Rebecca Gibel’s narration to be hypnotic in its dryness, allowing me to reprioritize and realign where I give my focus.
For readers interested in thinking critically about American history, this is a good start.
Judith Martin’s arch, acid wit laces every lesson on behaving with propriety in a culture where monstrous jerks are, more than ever, on parade and in power.
Samantha Irby is already funny on the page, but she has a special gift for comedic delivery, and her narration adds even more laughs.
Christine Buckley takes us deep into the practice of herbalism, showing us how to cultivate a meaningful relationship with the plant life around us.
When you’ve got a cult following like Duke’s Mayonnaise, you do whatever you want—like show up in a recipe for peppermint fudge brownies.
A sobering, expansive study of discrimination and nativism, but also eminently readable thanks to Okrent’s accessible writing style.
Literary critic Rachel Cohen’s incisive memoir explores her immersion into Jane Austen’s work during a fraught period in her personal life.
This absorbing look at a pivotal point in civil rights activity before the 1950s and ’60s is well done and should be of interest to us all.
Whether traveling Italy in a wheelchair or managing a classroom of Texas adolescents, Molly McCully Brown offers poetic insight about her experiences.
In this funny and candid memoir, comedian Mike Birbiglia muses upon his former—and profound—aversion to becoming a father.
Sara Faith Alterman tells the strange-but-true story of her seemingly conservative father and his surprising career as a popular author of novelty sex books.
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