Svenja O’Donnell uncovers long-held family secrets, interspersing her own research and travel with stories from her German mother and grandmother.
Thompson-Hernández’s Compton Cowboys makes room for tough questions about bias, inequality and the future of the black cowboy tradition.
Cody Cassidy delves deep into our primordial past and profiles 17 ancient individuals whom he deems responsible for humankind’s greatest firsts.
Kathryn Harkup unearths the science and stagecraft behind the more than 250 deaths Shakespeare’s characters experience or inflict.
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.
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