Some books are more than memoirs; they are historical testaments. Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, completed before his death in a Siberian prison, stands as both a final letter to the world and an intimate self-portrait of a man who refused […]
Few writers capture the fragile interplay between memory, melancholy, and meaning as masterfully as Georgi Gospodinov. In Death and the Gardener, translated with remarkable sensitivity by Angela Rodel, the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter turns inward, tracing the final month […]
History is rarely kind to women who defy expectations. In Platerówki? God Forbid! Women, War, and the Aftermath, acclaimed journalist and historian Olga Wiechnik resurrects the untold stories of the women who served in the only all-female military unit in Polish history: […]
Before Rick Steves became a household name in travel, before his PBS shows, bestselling guidebooks, and travel podcasts, there was a young dreamer with a backpack, a notebook, and an unshakable curiosity about the world. On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu […]
Barbara Demick has a rare talent for turning complex geopolitics into intimate human stories. In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins, she applies her reporter’s eye to one family caught […]
What if the key to understanding life itself lies not in animals or plants, but in something far stranger and more elusive? In Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, biologist Merlin Sheldrake invites readers […]
Seth Rogen’s Yearbook is everything fans could hope for and more: hilarious, self-deprecating, surprisingly insightful, and packed with the kind of stories that make you laugh out loud in public. Whether you know him from Superbad, Pineapple Express, or his distinctive laugh […]
Miriam Toews has always blurred the line between fiction and truth, but in A Truce That Is Not Peace, she finally lays her own life bare in a memoir that feels both intimate and elusive. It is a meditation on why we […]
Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them is a masterful work of historical nonfiction that reads like a political thriller. But unlike fiction, this story is terrifyingly […]
Chris Miller’s Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology is the rare business and geopolitics book that reads like a techno-thriller. It explains how tiny slices of silicon came to power everything from smartphones and dishwashers to guided missiles […]