Snippets of the Saturday Night Live head writer's life including growing up on Staten Island, performing in rural college cafeterias and competing in a WrestleMania match.
Winner of the 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story, framed as a letter to the author's teenage son.
The NBC News correspondent examines the Trump administration's systematic separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border and the living conditions of the children in custody.
A version of this list appears in the August 2, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending July 18, 2020.