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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By George Saunders
The Booker Prize-winning novelist explores how some of the greats spun their magic.
They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll
By Doug Brod
The hair and the sound were both bigger in the 1970s.
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City
By Scott D. Seligman
A little-known story of poor Jewish women uniting to demand fairly priced fleishig.
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
By John Matteson
This laudable work is less an account of the 1862 clash than of five notable figures who served on or near the battlefield.
The Boston Massacre
By Serena Zabin
By mining archival records, the author brings the human side of the long-ago tragedy to life.
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By Rebecca Carroll
A transracial adoptee reveals her struggle to build a Black identity in a world of white privilege.
Widowish: A Memoir
By Melissa Gould
A young woman struggles with the loss of her husband and the category it suddenly puts her in.
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By Yang Jisheng; translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian
A thoroughly researched account of the period often shorthanded as “China gone mad.”
