Sanctuary probes the concept of resilience, extracting it from dewy notions of rebirth and foregrounding the enduring pain of life after trauma.
Harsh but hopeful, Michael Eric Dyson bears witness to the recent killings of Black men and women by the police and puts their violent deaths in context.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean gathers 12 previously uncollected short pieces by Joan Didion, the velvet-gloved eviscerator of American culture.
Simon Winchester shows how land is a precarious, ever-changing reality that has been stolen, purchased, defended and damaged by human activities.
Julian Bond’s lectures from his prolific teaching career are full of firsthand lessons from his direct involvement in the civil rights movement.
Ida B. Wells was righteously indignant and wise beyond her era, and Michelle Duster translates her drive to today’s racial discourse with insight and grace.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin never met, but between 1939 and 1945 they had a strong relationship, and Laurence Rees brings this six-year period vividly alive.
As Annalee Newitz shows in Four Lost Cities, an ancient city’s fate was determined by complex interactions of politics, the environment and human choices.
This comprehensive meditation on Black history in the United States features 90 noteworthy Black authors and poets ruminating on the last 400 years.
In Dress Codes, Richard Thompson Ford has created a thorough and well-thought-out history of fashion from a legal and societal perspective.
Dolly Parton’s narration feels natural and off the cuff, like listening to stories from an old friend—and isn’t she the most beloved old friend?
Matthew Salesses invites the reader to rethink the very notion of what constitutes craft and offers alternatives to the usual writing workshop model.
Ethan Kross offers a toolbox full of constructive techniques for quieting our persistent inner voice or, better yet, turning it in a positive direction.
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