Mark A. Johnson’s thorough history text "American Bacon" situates bacon as a defining element of American identity. The book utilizes archival evidence, historical works, and interviews to explore the trajectory of bacon in American... Read More

Samantha Ellis’s powerful memoir "Always Carry Salt" exemplifies diaspora yearning and determination. Ellis grew up in the United Kingdom, hearing snippets of the Judeo-Iraqi Arabic of her parents and ancestors. By adulthood, though,... Read More

The moving memoir "Things Left Unsaid" embodies a son’s respect for his complicated father. Glenn E. Wichinsky’s exploratory memoir "Things Left Unsaid" is about a late-in-life discovery that compelled him to rewrite his entire... Read More

Kate Eichhorn’s "School Yearbook" is an illuminating study of the meanings and uses of yearbooks—“semipublic documents” with surprising cultural and political value. The Yale Banner, circa 1841, is widely considered the first... Read More

"Lessons in Drag" started as a performance by LaWhore Vagistan, the drag persona of academic Kareem Khubchandani. In it, she stages Khubchandani’s ethnographic research into accents, aunties, appropriation, and other topics connected... Read More

With an eye toward transformational changes that require good-faith buy-ins from all consumers of mainstream media, "Overcoming Information Chaos" is a compelling political science text. Retired diplomat Danielle M. Reiff brings together... Read More

About strengthening the US’s social foundations and expanding opportunities for innovation and growth, "Strong Floor, No Ceiling" is an ambitious and enthusiastic centrist political text. Oliver B. Libby’s centrist political... Read More

Michael W. Twitty’s masterful cookbook "Recipes from the American South" includes thoughtful historical considerations on the “collision of cultures” that inform its recipes from a vibrant, distinctive culinary region. Breads,... Read More