Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975

By Richard Thompson with Scott Timberg

Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975

This hit-or-miss memoir leaves far too much unsaid.

George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father

An intelligent, affecting portrait of our nation’s original striver.

Philip Roth: The Biography

A sweeping yet nuanced look at one of America’s literary lions.

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

Untangling the legacy of a German grandfather and father who stood on opposite sides in WWII.

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

This otherwise informative history is hamstrung by its fixation on Sylvia Plath’s notorious suicide.

Winter Pasture: One Woman’s Journey with China’s Kazakh Herders

By Li Juan; translated by Jack Hargreaves and Yan Yan

Winter Pasture: One Woman’s Journey with China’s Kazakh Herders

This newly translated memoir has long been loved in the author’s native land.

Restoration Heart: A Memoir

A middle-aged Brit at loose ends embraces his landed-gentry roots.

Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

By Monika Zgustova; translated by Julie Jones

Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

Aching depths of purpose and meaning are explored in these conversations with female gulagniks.