Thomas Jefferson’s Education by Alan Taylor
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Taylor tells this university story with cool skill and a very discerning eye for personal detail.
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Notes for a Star Trek Bibliography: The Antares Maelstrom
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Cox not only captures well the feeling of a frontier boom-town but also clearly enjoys himself injecting a little Deadwood-style hyperbole into the speech of his many seedy characters
Read MoreSaving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay By Julie Zickefoose
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We don’t simply get to know Jemima; we get to be Jemima as we are welcomed into Julie’s family home.
Read MoreCrossfire Hurricane by Josh Campbell
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The author gets quickly down to business, pursuing his main theme about Trump’s war against his own intelligence agencies.
Read MoreA Dangerous Engagement by Ashley Weaver
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Readers will recognize the trusty formula, but Weaver injects a dose of the unfamiliar into this cozy mystery.
Read MoreCoventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk
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Cusk’s essays create her own roadmap to making sense of her intentional disbelief both in her life and in her stories.
Read MoreAgrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon
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Agrippina is a smart choice for those who think they probably won’t enjoy ancient Roman history.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: It was when things were most obvious that they were often most true
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Flynn shows himself to be a master of courtroom sleight of hand.
Read MoreEnd Times by Bryan Walsh
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Written in an engaging style that is by turns inviting and slightly irksome.
Read MoreWading Right In by Catherine Owen Koning & Sharon M. Ashworth
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The added charm of this book comes from its warmly human elements.
Read MoreThe Borgias by Paul Strathern
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For those new to the history of Renaissance Italy, Strathern’s book is a perfectly paced and highly readable telling of one ambitious and ruthless family.
Read MoreBirds in Winter by Roger F. Pasquier
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Birds in Winter is extensively illustrated and a perfect pitch between professional-level scientific detail and popular-level general interest.
Read MoreThe Price We Pay by Marty Makary
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An engaging and eye-opening look at the healthcare system.
Read MoreThe Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
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The march of technology and the mass of satellites overhead have done little to tame this enormous renegade world.
Read MoreThe Case Against Free Speech by P.E. Moskowitz
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A view of free speech that will challenge people of all political stances.
Read MoreSavage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
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Monroe ruminates about what might motivate today's women to consume a diet of violent crime stories.
Read MoreGods of the Upper Air by Charles King
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An account of the birth of the discipline we now think of as anthropology, bristling with the warts-and-all personalities of its pioneers.
Read MoreMarx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
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Meet Marx the philosopher, economist, journalist, historian, revolutionary, and even Marx the parent.
Read MoreTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
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The author explores the construction of her identity during the Internet’s own infancy.
Read MoreJonathan Hickman's Return to Marvel's X-Men
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House of X #1 is truly a conundrum of empowerment, silence, and fear.
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