Dirt is a funny, irreverent and obsessive account of Bill Buford’s five-year odyssey to discover everything about French food.
Stephanie Danler ranges over the whole of her life as the daughter of two parents who failed to provide their offspring with a safe and loving home.
Beloved crime novelist Laura Lippman has now written a smart, thoughtful, sometimes vulnerable, always witty collection of essays.
As Clare Carlisle demonstrates in Philosopher of the Heart, reading Kierkegaard is much like reading a good novel or a thoughtful poem.
Wendy Williams turns her attention to humanity’s long-standing love of all things Lepidoptera in The Language of Butterflies.
Morgan Jerkins recounts her journey to uncover the meaning of stories from millions of African Americans who moved north during the Great Migration.
Maya Shanbhag Lang is an affable narrator who offers a blend of revelatory personal history and touching insight about her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease.
Novelist Edan Lepucki has gathered more than 60 essays addressing the question, “Who was my mother before she was a mother?”
After her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Maggie Downs quit her job and back-packed solo around the world, visiting 17 countries in the course of a year.
Kate E. Richards’ Drinking With Chickens is a haute cocktail book . . . but with chickens.
Kathryn Aalto provides biographical profiles and brief introductions to the work of 25 nature and environmental writers who are women.
Poet Maggie Smith’s words have provided solace and inspiration for countless readers online, and now they’re compiled in Keep Moving.
Tyler Feder walks us through her grief journey in hilarious, moving detail, and the illustrations enable us to experience her pain even more deeply.
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