A special event featuring many of this year’s honorees, including NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, AALIYAH BILAL, ERIN BOW, KENNETH M. CADOW, LIZZIE DAVIS, OLIVER DE LA PAZ, ELIOT DUNCAN, JONATHAN EIG, […]
Jane Start had a hit once, 10 years ago. Now she’s 33, broke, newly single and living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house. In This Bird Has […]
In her highly anticipated debut, Legitimate Kid: A Memoir, AIDA RODRIGUEZ chronicles her whirlwind life – from being kidnapped (twice!) and enduring homelessness with her children to securing an HBO […]
In the dystopian Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel, NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH offers a clear-eyed look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration – […]
From journalist LUKE RUSSERT, Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself is an exploration of one’s place in the world in the face of crushing grief. It chronicles […]
In Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, JEFFREY TOOBIN details the profound legacy of McVeigh, from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to the January 6, 2021, insurrection. […]
King: A Life is the first major biography of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in decades; in it, JONATHAN EIG offers an intimate view of an emotionally troubled […]
In TANANARIVE DUE's work of historical fiction, The Reformatory: A Novel, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, furthering his journey into […]
JOSEPH SASSOON’s The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire is a saga of the making – and undoing – of a family dynasty. In The […]
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” is HÉCTOR TOBAR’s personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the U.S. Taking on colonialism, […]
In The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, DR. RICHARD HAASS offers a provocative guide to reenvisioning citizenship if American democracy is to survive. The United States […]
In Optical Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization, COCO KRUMME explores how optimization has taken over the world – and the urgent case for a new approach. In Blood in […]