Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age is a history of the senior experience in modern America, revealing how security exists only for some. Historian JAMES CHAPPEL shows how old age first emerged as a distinct stage of life and then evolved, urging us to look to the past to better understand old […]
Former U.S. Poet Laureate ROBERT PINSKY reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Proverbs of Limbo, he mines and maps limbal regions both demographic and personal – clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and […]
Dynamic duo DAVE BARRY and RIDLEY PEARSON reunite to spill the tea on their latest projects – including the theatrical adaptation of their iconic Peter Pan prequel series, Peter and the Starcatchers; Barry’s hilarious caper Swamp Story: A Novel (with more twists and turns through the Everglades than a snake slithering away from a gator); and […]
In The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust, FRANCIS S. COLLINS draws on his work from the Human Genome Project and National Institutes of Health, providing a moral, philosophical, and scientific framework to address the problems of our time – distrust of public health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy. ERIC […]
Join us to celebrate 75 years of the National Book Awards and be a part of Team Book history! For more than a decade, the Miami Book Fair and National Book Foundation have joined together to present the biggest in-person showcase of National Book Award honorees anywhere in the country. 2024 honored authors across all […]
Profiles in Mental Health Courage follows the journeys of a diverse group of Americans who have struggled with mental health. PATRICK J. KENNEDY and STEPHEN FRIED share compelling stories about the resilience of those living with mental illness and addiction – people of all ages, backgrounds, and futures; some recovering, some relapsing, some barely holding […]
In Women, Money, Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality, JOSIE COX tells the compelling story of women’s fight for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equal access to money and the power that comes with it. In Remember, You Are a Wiley, MAYA WILEY shares a […]
R.O. KWON’s Exhibit: A Novel is the story of two women – one a brilliant young photographer, one a world-class ballerina mysteriously on hiatus – drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives. After one exposes the lifelong secret of an old family curse, the women become more entangled, and begin to explore hidden […]
DANIELA RUS’ The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI, co-written with Gregory Mone, is an introduction to the true potential of AI and a lively exploration of the underlying technology and its limitations and possibilities. In Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age, ROBERT SKIDELSKY explores our relationship with machines, […]
Author and award-winning journalist FRANK BRUNI’s The Age of Grievance examines how resentments over injustice – perceived or real – has come to define today’s culture and politics. At a time when more and more Americans are convinced they’re losing because someone else is winning, and people are taking their grievances to new extremes, Bruni […]
With Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, ADA CALHOUN sets out to complete an unfinished biography started 40 years earlier by her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Grief Is for People is SLOANE CROSLEY’s moving memoir and a portrait of friendship that explores multiple kinds of loss after the death of […]
On October 7, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates – an intimate collection of smart, meaningful, funny, emotional, and inspiring essays, edited by ZIBBY OWENS – gives voice to 75 contributors who shared their thoughts on what it means […]