Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism critiques feminism’s exclusionary preference for white women and exhorts those who support changing it for the better.
In Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen documents how certain justices on the Supreme Court have worked to erode the rights of the poor and middle class.
The personal essays collected in Evan James’s I’ve Been Wrong Before dazzle with words and phrases that dance with a lithesome rhythm.
In his compelling and vivid Congress at War, Fergus M. Bordewich delves deep into the difficult day-to-day politics of the 37th and 38th Congresses.
Everything I Know About Love recounts Dolly Alderton’s social and romantic mishaps through essays, satirical emails and recipes.
Adam Hochschild turns his brilliant narrative eye to Rose Pastor Stokes, the labor activist and real-life “Cinderella of the Ghetto,” in Rebel Cinderella.
This new biography captures the captivating contradictions of Dorothy Day as she became the leader of the Catholic Worker peace and justice movement.
Philip Kennicott’s insight into the way music speaks to us as we wend our way toward inevitable death makes this book an unforgettable triumph.
Erin Khar’s memoir, Strung Out, is a compassionate account of her illness and will surely be the gold standard for women writing about heroin addiction.
Alex Halberstadt slowly pulls away the curtain draped over his family’s unhappiness and discovers that his grandfather served as a bodyguard to Stalin.
This thought-provoking meditation on solitude lifts up many writers and artists who have embraced seclusion.
Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s powerful, poetic memoir, adds a soul-searing voice to the canon of contemporary immigration narratives.
Barry Sonnenfeld, legendary cinematographer and director, does more than recall Hollywood vignettes in this funny, wry and thoroughly entertaining memoir.
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