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Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
By Stevan M. Weine
A young psychiatrist-in-training studies the famed poet.
Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
By Farzon A. Nahvi, M.D.
A physician pulls back the curtain on emergency medicine.
North to Paradise
By Ousman Umar; translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn
A slim, sobering tale of one man’s journey to the “Land of the Whites.”
In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
By Livia Manera Sambuy; translated by Todd Portnowitz
A detailed look at a not particularly compelling figure.
Savage Journey
By Peter Richardson
How the iconoclastic writer came to embody his alter-ego.
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By Mark Dawidziak
The subject’s demise, like his tales, was spooky and unsettling.
The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
By Christopher C. Gorham
Meet a 20th-century trailblazer you’ve probably never heard of.
Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles
By Alex Harvey
How the gravel-voiced singer was birthed by the City of Angels.
