Audre Lorde gets her flowers in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise, a masterful, poetic biography of the literar and feminist icon.
In Shame on You, Melissa Petro invites us to flush shame into the light and challenge its control over our lives.
Simon Read brings the gory details of Victorian-era crimes to life in his thrilling history of Scotland Yard.
Mushroom Gastronomy’s part cookbook, part encyclopedia approach to the ever-fascinating fungus is as educational as it is mouthwatering.
In Magically Black and Other Essays, Jerald Walker unfurls poignant cultural critiques about parenting, Blackness and American life with laugh-out-loud humor.
Mathematician and comedian Matt Parker’s Love Triangle celebrates the wonders of the titular shape, and is bound to please the math-hesitant and math-fluent alike.
Comedy writer Chelsea Devantez romps through personal embarrassments, traumas and triumphs in her memoir, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This.
Psychologist Jamil Zaki’s illuminating Hope for Cynics shows how and why cynicism is a harmful social disease, and what we can do about it.
In this careful recording of the experiences of Japanese atomic bomb survivors, M.G. Sheftall provides a crucial service for our collective memory of Hiroshima.
Detailed, lucid and richly sourced, Sarah Jaffe’s From the Ashes shows how the transformational power of grief can fuel revolutionary change.
Jessica Hoppe’s stunning debut memoir, First in the Family, shows that understanding our histories allows for recovery, healing and liberation.
Beloved actress Diane Keaton’s Fashion First is both a style bible and an essential record of how to be cool.
Rebecca Nagle’s gripping By the Fire We Carry chronicles how the appeal of a decades-old Oklahoma murder restored land rights to Muscogee and Cherokee Nations.
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