An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Many couples have a safe word to call time-out from rough sex or to stop a conversation from going into that too hurtful place....
Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin
Whether Danielle Lazarin is writing about the intimate moments between psychic sisters and estranged siblings, or the awkward exchanges between teenagers and their peculiar...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by...
Is modern civilization doomed? Is the world in a state of moral decline? It’s difficult not to think so while scrolling through the news...
The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack by Jim...
Over a period of six years in the 1990s, Emmy-winning filmmaker-couple Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived with and observed a pack of wolves in...
Laura & Emma by Kate Greathead
Laura believes that her greatest gift to the planet is to not have children. She doesn’t hate sex, but doesn’t particularly like it either...
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
Until now, the double Booker prize-winning Peter Carey has, in his own words, "avoided a direct confrontation with race, and the question of what...
Feel Free by Zadie Smith
Reading British-born Smith’s brilliant second collection of essays might be the closest we’ll ever get to a real-life conversation with the fiercely private writer,...
Census by Jesse Ball
Some books resonate more deeply than others; they don’t merely reflect the world we’re presented with, but instead they refashioned it, even warp it,...