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.
At 14, Brooke Shields was the youngest model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue. She grew up in public, and now, at 59, she’s aging in public. In Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, Shields pens a manifesto against the myths that accompany aging as a woman, and claims the power that comes with experience and perspective.
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.
Deborah Derrickson Kossmann reckons with family trauma and her mother’s hoarding disorder in her piercing, empathetic debut memoir, Lost Found Kept.
Flipping through any given section of the exceptional photography tome Magnum America is like watching history pass before your eyes.
Alonso Duralde’s Hollywood Pride is a wide-ranging, well-written and visually appealing cultural history of LGBTQ+ representation in film.
Alonso Duralde’s Hollywood Pride is a wide-ranging, well-written and visually appealing cultural history of LGBTQ+ representation in film.
With her new guided journal, Leaf, Cloud, Crow, Margaret Renkl invites readers into a yearlong commitment to seeing the world more clearly and, in doing so, knitting ourselves closer to it.
With her new guided journal, Leaf, Cloud, Crow, Margaret Renkl invites readers into a yearlong commitment to seeing the world more clearly and, in doing so, knitting ourselves closer to it.
Atlas Obscura: Wild Life is a monumental tour through the world’s most interesting organisms, with heaping piles of facts, stories, photographs and illustrations.
Atlas Obscura: Wild Life is a monumental tour through the world’s most interesting organisms, with heaping piles of facts, stories, photographs and illustrations.
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