30 Books

Sonia Purnell’s A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II elevates the jacket copy phrase “gripping narrative” to a whole

Peter Schjeldahl is not just a critic: he is a sensitive receptor and reporter, an art appreciator and viewer, an educator, and an artist himself who possesses the linguistic skills,

In 2002, Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman landed a job with a successful composer who needed a violinist for his touring ensemble. It seemed like a dream gig: simple melodies, simple tempos,

Davis’s exciting debut collection of nonfiction, ranging from craft lectures to essays about writers and artists to notes on the translation process, is a great gift to readers, particularly those

Back when Chanel Miller was known to the world only as Emily Doe, she wrote a stunning victim statement for the sentencing hearing of her rapist. “You don’t know me,”

Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland is a murder mystery political history. Keefe opens with a scene of two Northern Irish

Given Morgan Parker’s subject matter in Magical Negro—how the black female body moves through the world, how the black body is seen and othered—it is logical that Parker’s interrogation of

At the time Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill came out, some readers had a touch of #metoo fatigue; many had heard just about all they could stand concerning Harvey Weinstein.

When we meet Elwood, he’s a quiet high school student whose greatest act of rebellion is listening to a record album of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. It’s the

Writing the life of a single intellectual can challenge any biographer. Somewhere the sardonic critic lays in wait, ready to complain about watching paint dry as the hapless writer tries