Lisa Feldman Barrett’s Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain sheds some light on our most powerful organ and its intriguing processes.
In Ed Ceasar’s The Moth and the Mountain, some answers to the mystery of climber Maurice Wilson remain shrouded in the mists of Mt. Everest.
An illuminating history of racism in America, White Fright reveals how white anxieties around sexuality shaped the Black experience of social injustice.
In Waste, Catherine Coleman Flowers recounts a lifetime of advocacy that has culminated in the battle for one Alabama county.
Operation Moonglow shows that the Apollo moon landing mission was the single most successful U.S. diplomatic effort of the late 20th century.
Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, offers a historical and sociological view of the toxic white male identity in Mediocre.
The New Long Life offers a lively survey of a world in which life and work will be altered by increasing longevity and rapidly changing technology.
Hilariously crass, Kelly Conaboy speaks aloud the thoughts of us all of us who love our dogs a little too much.
Nia Gould’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cat will be catnip for fans of cats, art, cat puns and expertly rendered illustrations.
Cat vs. Cat is impressively researched with lots of suggestions, strategies and support for multicat homes throughout.
The 30 cat-centric letters collected here are memorable, not least because they were penned by famous actors, scientists, writers and more.
As John Gray asserts in Feline Philosophy, being open to what cats can teach us just might “lighten the load that comes with being human.”
Historian Monica Black explores the connection between Germany’s postwar trauma and an upsurge in superstitious hysteria in A Demon-Haunted Land.
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