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New Nonfiction Releases February, 2024 |
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Carson McCullers: A Life
by Mary V. Dearborn
This new biography of the brilliant Southern author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is based on newly available letters and journals and traces how she captured the heart and longing of the outcast.
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Grief Is for People
by Sloane Crosley
The author of the New York Times best-sellers I Was Told There'd Be Cake shares how she dealt with the grief of losing her best friend to suicide.
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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
by Lucy Sante
The Belgian-born American writer shares both the arc of her artistic journey as well as a step-by-step account of her 2021 transition to becoming a woman at the age of nearly 70.
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The Maga Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing And How I Got Out
by Tina Nguyen
An acclaimed political journalist tells her story of loving and leaving the conservative movement (well before Trump), painting a shocking portrait of how they recruit, train and indoctrinate generations of young people in search of opportunity and shape them into leaders supporting the Republican party.
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My Side of the River
by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage victims affected by broken immigration laws.
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
by Philippa Gregory
Drawing on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources to rewrite history, focusing on the agency, persistence and effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and cultural transition, the best-selling historical novelist redefines "normal" female behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making and sainthood.
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Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely Life
by Richard Paul Evans
In this intimate and heartfelt collection of personal essays, the best-selling author of more than 40 novels recounts his moving journey from childhood to beloved writer, sharing the lessons he's learned and hard-won advice about everything from marriage to parenthood.
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
by Chantha Nguon
Sharing over 20 Khmer recipes, a Cambodian refugee recounts her life after the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart in the 1970s, showing how she relied on her beloved mother's“slow noodles” approach to healing and to cooking—one that prioritizes time and care over expediency.
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
by Leslie Jamison
From the best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.
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This American Ex-wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
by Lyz Lenz
Weaving reportage with sociological research, literature with popular culture, and personal stories of coming together and breaking up, a journalist and proud divorcee, in this deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage, preaches the good gospel of the power of divorce.
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Whiskey Tender
by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Reflecting on her past and present, the author, a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the "melting pot" of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.
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2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
by Eric Klinenberg
The acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author tells the story of one of the most consequential years in history through profiles of seven New Yorkers, including 2020 an elementary school principal, a bar manager and a subway custodian.
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors
by Erika Howsare
In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, the author investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perfective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we interact with and shape the natural world.
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Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
by Barbara McQuade
A legal scholar and analyst looks at both the history and current threat of disinformation from Mussolini and Hitler to Bolsonaro and Trump while offering practical solutions to overcoming its poisonous influence on democracy.
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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
by Emmeline Clein
A writer recounts her own struggles with disordered eating in the context of historical figures and pop culture celebrities to reveal the economic, cultural and political history of an epidemic that has wreaked havoc on generations of women.
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka
This history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms examines how these mathematically determined decisions have shaped our culture and society, from trendy restaurants and city grids to social media and entertainment.
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
by Hamilton Nolan
A long-time labor journalist presents this urgent on-the-ground excavation of the past, present and future of the American labor movement, drawing the line from forgotten workplaces in rural West Virigina to Washington's halls of power and showing how labor solidarity can transform American politics—if it can first transform itself.
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If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
by Anna Motz
An internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist based in London explores the underexamined psychological reasons for female violence, explaining that it is more widespread than realized and reveals how it exposes centuries-old beliefs about women and their value.
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
by Vicki Sokolik
An advocate for homeless youths' rights, through the voices of the kids themselves, shines a light on this hidden crisis and shows how they overlooked and impeded by the system and offers remedies to the problem.
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
by Allen C. Guelzo
One of America's foremost experts on Lincoln captures the president's firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history, providing us with a deeper understanding of this endlessly fascinating man and shows how his ideas are still sharp and relevant more than 150 years later.
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The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes
by Nick Troiano
Discussing the "primary problem" in our politics today, the founding Executive Director of Unite America makes a bold proposal to abolish party primaries in our country to offer voters across the political spectrum a realistic roadmap to a more representative and functional democracy.
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Radical Reparations: Healing a Nation's Soul
by Marcus Anthony Hunter
In this thought-provoking and sure-to-be controversial book, a social justice pioneer and inventor of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter offers a unifying and unconventional framework for achieving holistic and comprehensive healing of African American communities by reimagining reparations through a profound new lens.
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
by Amitav Ghosh
Part travelogue, part memoir, part essay in history, the author, drawing on decades of archival research, charts the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India and China—and on contemporary globalism itself, revealing the role one small plant had in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
by David Montero
In this groundbreaking investigative narrative, an Emmy Award-nominated journalist follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America's history of enslavement, showcasing exactly what was stolen, who stole it and to whom its owed, calling for companies to be held accountable for past atrocities.
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Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
by Chris Anderson
Recounting inspiring stories from the world's boldest thinkers, the bestselling author, media pioneer and curator of TED shows how generosity has the power to transform outrage back into optimism and offers a playbook for how to embark on our own generous acts.
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Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems
by Graywolf Press
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Graywolf Press, this unique collection of poems serves as community document in which 50 Graywolf poets have selected 50 poems by Graywolf poets, offering insightful prose reflections on their selections.
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Song of My Softening
by Omotara James
A profound and intersectional text, Song of My Softening is a queer, fat, love song of the interior. Poems study the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. This book is a window into what perseverance looks like, ungilded, a mirror for anyone born into a culture outside of their identity, who has survived alienation, violation, depression, and systematized oppression. Unspoken truths about the body and soul are mused with openness, candor, and tenderness.
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Spectral Evidence
by Gregory Pardlo
A beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet forces us to consider how we think about devotion beauty and art; about the criminalization and death of black lives; about justice and how these have been inscribed into our present, our history and the Western canon.
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