Michael Gross’ delightful cultural history of WASPs illuminates the odd corners of the lives of our nation’s elite—and American history itself.
Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Hickey champions pop culture with a cornucopia of studies, experiments and visuals in You Are What You Watch.
Soup lovers will delight in Shelly Westerhausen Worcel’s cookbook that offers soups, stews, ramen, gazpacho and more for every season.
Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky celebrates the “magic eight” indigenous plants first cultivated in the Americas.
Wistful, understated and urbane, Bartleby and Me is vintage Talese—the exemplary work of a gentleman journalist.
The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst explores the influences and impact of goth music and culture in an immersive new coffee table book.
Breaking Twitter portrays Elon Musk as a modern-day Icarus who has brought confusion, disarray and dysfunction to the social media landscape.
This survey of seven teen shows explores how they broke ground with creativity, heart and hard work, paving the way for the genre’s progressive and diverse oeuvre today.
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key’s The History of Sketch Comedy is a wonderful soup-to-nuts compendium of everything sketch.
Gardening Can Be Murder is as full of delights as an English cottage garden as it explores the links between horticulture and mysteries.
In World Within a Song, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy introduces readers to the music he loves with unabashed joy.
The long-awaited memoir from the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone is a rollicking ride about a rock life well lived.
Set in Detroit’s beloved Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, Curtis Chin’s memoir shows his path from anxious uncertainty to hard-won confidence.
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