Books

Getting to Reparations

A revelatory history of reparations in America and an argument for a new path forward to restorative justice by Georgetown University Law Professor and author of The Whiteness of Wealth, Dorothy Brown.

The Last Sweet Bite: Stories of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found

Human rights activist Michael Nazir Shaikh’s forthcoming reported narrative on how food and food culture are invisible casualties of war and political violence across the globe, from Syria to Sri Lanka, Afghanistan to China, examining how a community’s sense of history and identity is lost when food traditions are lost, and the people who are trying to restore and reclaim their heritage.

Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness

Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award winner, journalist, and author of The Kings of Yukon Adam Weymouth illuminates one brave wolf’s journey across the Alps into Italy, interrogating the fears and realities of those living on land that is being repopulated by wolves while undergoing economic, political, and climate upheaval, and examining what the resurgence of wolves says about our connection to nature, immigration, and each other.

The Future is Peace

Lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, both of whom who have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a seven-day journey to understand this holy, bloodstained land, and the history that binds and divides its people, fueling worldwide conflict, antisemitism, and Islamophobia, offering a share story of the past and a possible future of security and prosperity for both people

Craftland: In Search of Our Disappearing Trades

Exploring the rapidly fading crafts and artisanal traditions that have shaped history and economies, and the last master craftspeople keeping them alive in Britain.

The Next Journalism

Veteran journalist, cofounder of the Pew Research Center, and coauthor of The Elements of Journalism Tom Rosenstiel explores the new crisis in journalism and how it directly reflects a crisis in American democracy, revealing the elemental flaws in the way that journalism currently functions, and offering 10 solutions that can correct those faults. 

Empire of Madness: A Physician’s Re-imagining of Global Health

Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Medical School physician Khameer Kidia’s reexamination of western psychiatry, a celebration of indigenous mental healthcare, and a vision for a more equitable and effective way forward supported that combines memoir, clinical work and scientific research.

I Speak of Wrongs

National Book Critics Circle award-winning biographer Charlotte Gordon’s I Speak of Wrongs, the story of the rise and near collapse of the early women’s movement in America through three of its leaders, Frances Harper, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone, focusing on themes of friendship, allyship, and the challenges of political compromise. 

Spaghetti Junction

From New York Times Cooking, essayist and food writer of Korean American, Eric Kim, a collection of essays in which the author shares the pivotal experiences that catapulted him into "true adulthood" in a decade of firsts: first failure, first heartbreak, first brush with death, first loss, first love, and more

Letter from Japan

In Letter from Japan, Marie Kondo responds to the myriad questions she has received about her inspirations by examining the Japanese customs that she grew up with—minute details of tea ceremonies, the art of taking care of gardens, and the power of passing seasons—with her trademark gentle wisdom.

The End of Death

Medical doctor Basil Baccouche chronicles the first human heart transplant in the U.S., by the pioneering but reclusive surgeon Norman Shumway, his continued pursuit of this groundbreaking medical advancement leading to second lives for those with heart disease, and the long and contentious legal and ethical battles that redefined the meaning of death,

The New Snake Oil: Health and Wellness in the Age of Confusion

In this rigorous and enlightening investigation, doctor and award-winning broadcast Xand van Tulleken examines the societal shift in interest and emphasis from health to wellness asking what this means for the way that health policy is made, and the way we understand our bodies? Are the claims of these wellness services – that they can extend our life, improve our bodies or increase our mental performance, really justified?

Sea Change: America’s New Great Game in the Arctic Circle

Financial Times Associate Editor and Columnist Rana Foroohar reports on the global fight for maritime dominance in the Arctic Circle. A ‘Great Game’ for the twenty-first century with the U.S. playing catch up against Russia and China in a region where national security, climate change, communications infrastructure and natural resource interests converge