Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Boat Baby, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen shares an unforgettable memoir that blends courage, humor, and heartfelt reflection. Through vivid storytelling, Nguyen traces her family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to a new life in America, exploring the meaning of […]
Pauline Harmange’s brief manifesto is not a coy thought experiment. It is a full-throated argument for misandry as a political position and as a psychic exit ramp from a world structured by male power. The title promises heat and the essay delivers, […]
Scott Ellsworth’s Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America aims for narrative propulsion over academic granularity, and for the most part it hits the mark. If you like your history […]
Richard V. Reeves’ Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It is one of the most talked-about social studies books in recent years, and for good reason. With the world shifting […]
Kate Murphy’s You’re Not Listening is that rare piece of nonfiction that quietly changes your daily behavior. It is a cultural x-ray of why real listening has become scarce and a field guide to reclaiming it in conversations, teams, families, and communities. […]
Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras turns a career of high stakes protection into a clear, practical handbook for everyday courage. Becoming Bulletproof blends memoir, behavioral psychology, and field-tested tactics to show how ordinary people can prepare for stress, read others more […]
Amy Bloom’s In Love is a slim, startlingly clear memoir about a marriage tested by early onset Alzheimer’s and the ethical, legal, and deeply personal choices that follow. It is both a love story and a document of witness, written with Bloom’s […]
In Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach (Peasant Women: The Story of Our Grandmothers), Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak continues her exploration of forgotten female voices, turning her gaze this time toward the women who remained behind in the Polish countryside while their sisters left for […]
Cat Bohannon’s Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution is an ambitious and illuminating work that redefines how we understand the story of our species. In a world where human evolution has long been told through the […]
History has a way of hiding its most extraordinary heroes, and Pippa Latour was one of them. The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines, co-written with journalist Jude Dobson, finally brings to light the incredible true story […]