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 discuss the power, strength, and creativity of the 140+ voices collected in the book, including writers, leaders, scholars, and activists, and 24 Indigenous voices. Moderating …
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 made war on American ideals. In TRACY K. SMITH’s To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, she looks at the constant assaults …
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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 is climb, hang from the highest limbs of the tallest trees, and scale the side of a building. In JESS ROW’s The New Earth: A …
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 womanhood and the historical power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. In We Are Too Many: A Memoir , HANNAH PITTARD recalls a …
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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 the plague in India. In The World: A Family History of Humanity, SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE chronicles great dynasties, from the Caesars to the Kennedys, linking …
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 that tested what she thought she was physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of. In EMMA GREY’s The Last Love Note: A Novel, two years after …
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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 gives us meaning. It might be hearing an old song blasting from a passing car, the pleasure of refusing the "nefarious" scannable QR code menus, …
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 of a war that continues to threaten the world as we know it. Moderating is author, historian, and award-winning professor PHIL HARLING. Buy War and …
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 Book of Cat Names (That Your Cat Won't Answer to, Anyway), New Yorker cartoonist BOB ECKSTEIN offers the most popular cat names (to avoid), cat …
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 was and how it got there are two long-held secrets kept by the residents of the town's Chicken Hill neighborhood. And as the mystery unfolds …
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better is a bold call to reexamine how our government operates – and how it sometimes fails. JENNIFER PAHLKA shows why we must stop trying to move what we have today onto new technology and instead consider what it would …
In Breaking Through: Communicating to Open Minds, Move Hearts, and Change the World, SALLY SUSMAN reveals how we can break through the noise to get our message across and make positive change. She shares the fascinating story of how Pfizer managed the massive communications challenge that came with COVID-19, illustrating how leaders need to muster …