Book Reviews & Recommendations
In The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, Amanda Montell continues her exploration of language, culture, and psychology, this time turning her focus inward to examine how our minds cope with an increasingly chaotic world. Following the success of Cultish […]
Yiyun Li’s newest memoir opens with a sentence no one wants to hear: there is no good way to say this. From that bare fact, she builds a book that looks directly at the unimaginable. After losing her sons Vincent in 2017 […]
Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America is a lucid, urgent walk through American history that explains how the United States arrived at a precarious democratic moment and what it might take to reclaim the promise of self-government. […]
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, […]
Isabel Allende has long been celebrated as one of the world’s most passionate and lyrical voices in literature, but The Soul of a Woman feels especially intimate. It is not merely a memoir it is a living testament to womanhood, resilience, and […]
In The Hour of the Predator (L’heure des prédateurs), Giuliano da Empoli delivers a haunting exploration of modern power. Blending political insight with a sharp, almost cinematic narrative style, the author exposes how today’s global stage is dominated not by institutions or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jeff Hiller’s Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success is that rare celebrity memoir that feels both hilarious and healing. Known for his breakout role as Joel in HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, Hiller delivers a deeply funny, tender, and […]