Book Reviews & Recommendations
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is one of the most devastating and important works of investigative nonfiction in recent memory. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best History & Biography, this book exposes […]
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 […]
Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief reads like a heist thriller that happens to be true. It follows Stéphane Breitwieser, a soft spoken Frenchman who relieved European museums, churches, and small galleries of hundreds of Renaissance and medieval treasures between 1995 and 2001. […]
Gregg Olsen’s Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home is one of the most unsettling and emotionally raw true crime books of recent years. It revisits the notorious 2005 Groene family murders […]
Jess Lourey’s Unspeakable Things is a haunting blend of coming-of-age fiction and psychological thriller, set against the unsettling quiet of small-town Minnesota in the 1980s. Inspired by real events from the author’s hometown, the story captures the claustrophobic fear that lurks beneath […]