Books

 

FORTHCOMING

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. 

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

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,

Make Me Well? One Doctor’s Quest to Understand the Confusing World of Wellness

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