Oliver Broudy weaves history, science, nature and psychology into a narrative about environmental illness with a good old-fashioned road trip as its backbone.
Is Rape a Crime? blends Michelle Bowdler’s own narrative with detailed research about how law enforcement—from crime labs to individual cops—fail rape victims.
Leila Slimani collects Moroccan women’s testimonies, woven together with her own reflections on Morocco’s social attitudes toward sex, in Sex and Lies.
This colorful little volume starts around 1900 and offers a brisk romp through recent queer history, with a heavy dose of the arts and popular culture.
Cody Cassidy delves deep into our primordial past and profiles 17 ancient individuals whom he deems responsible for humankind’s greatest firsts.
As Clare Carlisle demonstrates in Philosopher of the Heart, reading Kierkegaard is much like reading a good novel or a thoughtful poem.
The Shadow System is Sylvia A. Harvey’s unflinching investigation of the vast collateral damage falling on the prisoners’ families.
Across Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland and South Africa, McRay regales us with spellbinding narratives that illustrate the power of stories to reconcile.
Listening to the audiobook feels like bingeing a few great episodes of “This American Life.”
In his debut book, The Hot Hand, Ben Cohen takes a deep dive into the fascinating, often misunderstood phenomenon of “hot streaks.”
Joanne McNeil’s Lurking is a thoughtful exploration of the development of technology, online identity and the essential elements of humanness at the core.
Susan J. Douglas’ book In Our Prime will inflame the hearts of feminists who joined the movement in the 1970s and those who cut their teeth on #MeToo.
Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism critiques feminism’s exclusionary preference for white women and exhorts those who support changing it for the better.
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