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.
In her memoir, Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong offers a fierce excavation of her hardships as an Asian American woman living and working as a poet and artist.
In Meals, Music, and Muses, recipes are grounded in the culinary traditions of the African American South and grouped according to seven styles of music.
In The Second Chance Club, Jason Hardy meaningfully describes his time in “disaster prevention” as a New Orleans probation and parole officer.
Clement Knox’s Seduction provides an alluring and breathtaking history of enticement in the modern age.
A neatly planted cornfield in Iowa might not seem like the setting for an international trade war, but looks can be deceiving.
In 2013, Ginger Gaffney was called to help with a small herd of aggressive horses at an alternative prison ranch near where she lives in New Mexico.
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