Book Reviews & Recommendations
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 […]
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 […]
There are countless retellings of the Trojan War, yet few manage to strike a balance between grandeur, humor, and heartbreak the way Troy by Stephen Fry does. Known for his wit and narrative charm, Fry takes one of the world’s oldest and […]
In Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference, Rutger Bregman, the bestselling author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists, challenges readers to redefine what it means to live a successful life. Rather than chasing personal gain or status, […]
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 […]
Few memoirs manage to be both devastating and laugh-out-loud funny, but Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President by E. Jean Carroll pulls off that extraordinary feat. Known for her sharp humor and fearless candor, Carroll delivers a remarkable behind-the-scenes look […]
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. […]