Some people just seem to have a certain magic that highlights their credibility, draws people to them, and puts them on a fast track to success, while others struggle—even though their knowledge and skill levels may equal or even... Read More

A politically minded couple embarks on a semiambitious cross-country road trip in the comedic graphic novel "Amongst the Liberal Elite". Armed with a tax refund, the liberal-leaning Michael and Alex, along with their cat Kittery (who’s... Read More

Ben Barnz’s partner has a theory that there is a major generational shift for gay people every five years. This book, then, is a memoir from almost four zeitgeist changes ago. Beginning in the week of the 9/11 attacks, "We" is a taste... Read More

"Paperback Crush" by Gabrielle Moss is an immersive examination and commentary on teen and tween fiction from the 1980s and ‘90s. It’s sprinkled with personal opinions and memoir elements as well as interviews with authors like... Read More

In 1939, a team from Garfield, New Jersey, traveled to Miami for the high school football championship. The event drew wide attention. The upstart Garfield Boilermakers came from an immigrant-heavy northern city to face the perennial... Read More

John Freeman, the former editor of Granta, edited this collection on power. Its stories and poems are astonishing in their global breadth, featuring chilling and vivid perspectives on brutal and sublime assertions of power in life around... Read More

David Stubbs’s "Future Sounds" takes on the gargantuan task of providing an overview of the entire history of electronic music, from the influence of English philosopher Francis Bacon back in 1626 to the smashing success of electronic... Read More

Part memoir, part biography, "Look Both Ways" traces the long path that sent Katharine Coles’s grandparents across the world, searching for oil and a resolution to their untenable marriage. Both trained geologists, Walter Link and... Read More