Book Reviews & Recommendations
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 […]
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 […]
Katherine May’s Wintering is a quietly introspective book that invites readers to rethink how we approach the darker, quieter periods of our lives. It is part memoir, part meditation, and part lyrical essay about the value of slowing down, withdrawing, and finding […]
In Jävla karlar (Damn Men), Andrev Walden delivers a brilliant and darkly funny debut that transforms chaos and trauma into sharp, lyrical storytelling. The novel, which won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize, recounts the author’s unusual childhood seven different fathers in seven years […]
A Bold Manifesto on Inequality That Challenges the Conscience of a Nation Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America arrives as a powerful follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted, and it wastes no time asking the hard question: Why does the richest country in […]
In All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, Patrick Bringley invites readers into one of the most sacred spaces of art and human emotion the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But this is not simply a book […]
Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is one of those rare nonfiction books that feels both monumental and intimate a sweeping account of scientific discovery intertwined with the harrowing, deeply personal story of one American family. […]
Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People is the rare health book that reads like a thriller and stings like a manifesto. It asks a deceptively simple question that reshapes everything that follows: what if much of what we eat is not really food […]
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is not just a book it is an unflinching dissection of the hidden social architecture that has shaped America’s history and continues to define its present. In this profoundly researched and emotionally charged work, […]
Chuck Hogan’s The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case delivers one of the most captivating true crime narratives in recent years. It blends the suspense of an unsolved mystery with the warmth and […]