In JAMES MCBRIDE’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel, workers digging a foundation find a skeleton at the bottom of a well in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Who the skeleton […]
In I Must Be Dreaming, acclaimed cartoonist ROZ CHAST explores and lays bare her own dream world – it’s a place that’s sometimes creepy but always hilarious. In The Complete […]
In War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, Russian journalist MIKHAIL ZYGAR explains the impact of a new generation of Ukrainians, and provides an overview […]
ROSS GAY's new collection of genre-defying essays, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays, continues his ongoing investigation of joy. For Gay, what makes us happy is what connects us and […]
In My What If Year: A Memoir, ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA writes about pausing her successful high-powered career for a year to explore a few jobs of her dreams, a journey […]
SIMON SCHAMA’s Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations investigates the tangled history of pandemics and vaccines through the 18th and 19th centuries, from smallpox in London to […]
In the bittersweet You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir, poet MAGGIE SMITH explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, ultimately reckoning with contemporary […]
In DAVE BARRY‘s Swamp Story: A Novel, Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her bad-news ex-boyfriend – then she stumbles across a […]
ALLEGRA GOODMAN’s Sam: A Novel is the story of a 7-year-old with a nearly absent father and a mother struggling to make ends meet. But all Sam wants to do […]
In Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, HEATHER COX RICHARDSON offers a compelling and original narrative of how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have […]
SANDRA GUZMÁN, editor of Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women, is joined by contributors ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, DAINA CHAVIANO, ANJANETTE DELGADO, and ESMERALDA SANTIAGO to […]
From the creation of the first encyclopedia and Wikipedia to ancient museums and modern kindergarten classes, SIMON WINCHESTER’s Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to […]