Book Reviews & Recommendations
Parvati Shallow’s memoir arrives with a built-in spotlight. For many viewers she is the most magnetic player in the history of Survivor, a strategist with a megawatt smile and a social game that launched a thousand think pieces. Nice Girls Don’t Win […]
Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation is a powerful, deeply researched exploration of how a movement rooted in spiritual devotion evolved into a political and cultural powerhouse defined by patriarchy, […]
Charlie Kirk’s The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future is an unapologetic exploration of the principles behind Trump-era conservatism. Written by the founder of Turning Point USA, this book sets out to explain the intellectual and philosophical backbone […]
Bill Perkins’ Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life is a thought-provoking and, at times, polarizing guide that challenges one of modern society’s most deeply ingrained beliefs: that the ultimate goal of financial success is to […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger has lived a life that sounds like a Hollywood script: a poor Austrian boy becomes the world’s greatest bodybuilder, then a blockbuster movie star, and later, the governor of California. In Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, he distills the […]
What if everything you’ve been told about time management is wrong? That’s the provocative question at the heart of Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a book that doesn’t teach you how to squeeze more into your schedule, but […]
John Green has always had a rare gift for blending intellect with emotion, and in The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, he takes that talent to an entirely new level. This is his first nonfiction book, adapted from his critically […]
A heartfelt, sharp, and necessary memoir of migration, identity, and love in modern Germany Tahsim Durgun’s “Mama, bitte lern Deutsch: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft” is one of those rare books that manages to be both funny and devastating at once. […]
An intimate reflection on empathy, leadership, and the courage to be kind in a divided world Jacinda Ardern’s A Different Kind of Power is not your typical political memoir. It reads less like a victory lap and more like a meditation on […]
Shipwreck, mutiny, and the uneasy truth about empire and human nature Quick Take David Grann’s The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is a propulsive work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a sea adventure and lands like a courtroom […]