What makes this book memorable is Wilkerson’s extraordinary narrative gift, as she pairs research with stories that illustrate the impact of the caste system.
Jeff Hobbs drills down into the second-largest school district in the U.S. to shine an intimate light on a few senior boys in two very different high schools.
Eula Biss blends research, reflection and richly rendered personal experience into a compulsively readable memoir about money, art and capitalism.
Mixing essays, poetry and images, Claudia Rankine’s new book, Just Us, asks how our notions of whiteness play out in these United States.
Written in Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa’s honest, passionate voice, this memoir is, quite simply, beautiful.
In Work Mate Marry Love, Debora L. Spar examines historical links between technology, gender, work and family to imagine what the future might look like.
In Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, Jenny Kleeman investigate new technologies poised to change essential industries and human interactions.
What Can a Body Do? by Sara Hendren is a fascinating look at the ingenuity behind newly developed accessible designs.
Thomas Judd clearly finds joy in Rutger Bregman’s revelations, making the audiobook a pleasure to listen to.
Jessica Goudeau profiles two refugees with incredible stories, set against the shifting backdrop of policy and politics in the United States.
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.
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