Aparna Shewakramani’s memoir "She’s Unlikeable" is a rallying cry for women’s independence and empowerment. Looking for love and a South Asian Mr. Right, Shewakramani, a... Read More

Edward J. Renehan Jr.’s "Deliberate Evil" is about a true crime from long ago: the upper-class murder that shook Salem, Massachusetts in the 1830s. That spooky setting is... Read More

A comforting book for anyone navigating the effects of trauma, August McLaughlin and Jamila Dawson’s "With Pleasure" is an inspiring guide to feeling good in one’s body.... Read More

The members of the Baby-Sitters Club are back—and wiser, older, and more inclusive—in the rich, diverse essays and comics of "We Are the Baby-Sitters Club". This vibrant... Read More

Jonathan Ned Katz’s "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams" is the biography of a queer Jewish woman whose life sheds light on the times. The short, fascinating... Read More

Feminist lawyer Priya-Alika Elias’s excellent essay collection "Besharam" explores modern womanhood in two nations. Elias grew up in India, came to the US for college and law... Read More

John Glenn, a prominent representative of the Greatest Generation, gets a dimensional treatment in Alice L. George’s biography, "The Last American Hero". While many Americans... Read More

The compiled interviews and texts of "George Harrison on George Harrison" come from across the music legend’s career, from before the Beatles hit it big up into the final year... Read More

Matthew Algeo’s "All This Marvelous Potential" is a broad study of Robert Kennedy’s 1968 two-day trip to Kentucky and its lasting effects on both the Appalachian people and... Read More

Comedian Richard Lucas’s George Carlin-esque memoir, "The Dog Log", begins with his “impotent fury” toward a neighbor with a yapping Yorkie; his initial frustration leads... Read More

Nikola Tesla was an accomplished scientist and inventor as well as an enigmatic technological dreamer, as shown in Amy M. O’Quinn’s thorough biography "Nikola Tesla for... Read More

Born in the mid-1800s, Fanny Bullock Workman was a trailblazer, garnering mountain-climbing records in a male-dominated sport and fighting for women’s rights years before the... Read More