Adam Chandler’s history of labor can make readers question their own relationship to work, what their jobs mean to them, and why employment is so integral to our identity.
Kate Winkler Dawson’s deftly handled The Sinners All Bow examines the birth of the true crime genre and the murder that inspired The Scarlet Letter.
Stephen Ellcock returns with his signature visual alchemy in a compendium of images related to the elements of the natural world.
You’d be hard-pressed to come up with a more complete history of everyday fashion than Josh Sims’ Icons of Style.
Matty Matheson’s new cookbook highlights the chef’s (and The Bear actor’s) unfussy nature and enthusiasm for no-frills tasty food.
Everyone living in our so-called “post” colonial world, especially anyone who’s ever been a tourist, should read Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place.
Part engrossing memoir, part page-turning detective story and part mesmerizing biography, The Secret History of the Rape Kit is a bold, feminist history of a game-changing innovation.
Zeinab Badawi’s incredible An African History of Africa should be studied in every school across the West.
In her refreshing new memoir, Brooke Shields shares how she learned to embrace the maturity, wisdom and experience that comes with age.
With luminous prose and gentle, compassionate wisdoms, Pico Iyer contemplates life’s challenges from a Benedictine monastery.
Alishia McCullough’s groundbreaking Reclaiming the Black Body takes a sharp aim at diet culture, providing a much-needed foil to the misinformation and stigma about fat people and a deeply insightful guide for women of color struggling with body image.
Irvin Weathersby Jr.’s indispensable In Open Contempt examines how we bear witness to sites and perpetrators of racial trauma.
Douglas R. Egerton’s magnificent, exhaustively researched and beautifully written A Man on Fire charts the extraordinary life of multitalented abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
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