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.
This intriguing collection of essays by the children of actors, authors and athletes gives readers the lowdown on what it’s like to be raised by a legend.
Rockaway, Diane Cardwell’s memoir of the ways that surfing launched her into a new life, is as invigorating as waxing up your board and getting in the water.
In The Madwoman and he Roomba, Sandra Tsing Loh chronicles her 55th year of life with let-it-all-hang-out charm.
This colorful little volume starts around 1900 and offers a brisk romp through recent queer history, with a heavy dose of the arts and popular culture.
Bakari Sellers beautifully evokes the South Carolina low country to explain how its backbreaking poverty and history of relentless racism molded him.
For anyone who has wondered how their identity is impacted by the ways others see them, Fairest is an extraordinary story of one woman’s self-reckoning.
Eileen Alexander responded to the onset of World War II with humor and intellect, both of which shine through in this collection of letters to her paramour.
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