Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir is Ashley C. Ford's powerful debut work, a story of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana battling her body and her environment, within a family fragmented by incarceration. For Celestial and Roy, the couple at the center of Tayari Jones‘ An American Marriage: A Novel, the American dream in […]
Mindfulness doesn’t have to be an individualistic solution to our challenges. In Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World, Shelly Tygielski argues that mindfulness can also be a powerful tool for spurring profound social change by going inward. Moderated by Arianna Huffington, author and founder of The Huffington Post.
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker is a collection of the venerated magazine's writing on race in America. Spanning a century, this anthology edited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick brings together contributions by writers such as James Baldwin, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Vinson Cunningham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Malcolm […]
Merissa Nathan Gerson’s Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving is a relatable account of one woman’s reckoning with loss, and a guide to the world of self-recovery, self-love, and the skills necessary to meet one's own needs in times of pain – especially when that pain is suffered alone.
In Our Last Blue Moon: A Memoir, her first book, psychotherapist and former dancer and choreographer Kris O’Shee tells the story of the loss of her husband, Alan Cheuse, the novelist, teacher, and literary commentator known as the “voice of books” on NPR’s All Things Considered. Panelists include poet Robert Pinsky, fiction writer Ana Menéndez, […]
Live Q&A! Starts @ 5:30 p.m. EST. Comedian and social commentator Colin Quinn sees the United States as a fifty-states-wide couples’ counseling session whose beleaguered participants are thinking about filing for divorce, and calls everyone out state-by-state. But while Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States skewers us all – red, blue, and purple […]
In the dual biography The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Peniel E Joseph upends longstanding preconceptions of the 20th century's most iconic African American leaders. In We Are Called to Be a Movement, Reverend Dr. William Barber II delivers a stirring message informed by their […]
In His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, journalist, documentarian, and historian Jonathan Alter examines an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to United States president to global icon. He’s speaking with fellow author and political scribe Neal Gabler, whose latest, Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975, is an […]
David Nasaw's The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War tells the until now largely hidden postwar story of the more than one million displaced persons left behind in Germany, who refused to go home or had no homes to return to. Called “insightful and eye-opening” by NPR’s Jim Zarroli and “absorbing and […]
In American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise, veteran New York Times economic reporter Eduardo Porter argues that racism is the reason why the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Leading us through history and across the country – from FDR's New Deal through Bill Clinton's welfare reform […]
In Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade, Fred P. Hochberg, who served as the chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States under President Barack Obama, argues that trade is easier to understand than we commonly think. To start, consider the banana. Speaking […]
In Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century That Followed, women's history expert Doris Weatherford offers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women's decadeslong fight for the vote, and the continuing current-day struggle for human rights and equality. Joining Weatherford is Marlene Wagman-Geller, author of Fabulous Female Firsts: Because of Them […]