David Talbot and Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of the political landscape of the 1960s and 70s, one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century, brought to life through seven defining radical moments that offer vibrant parallels and lessons for today.
There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. In this wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains.
Blending memoir, history, sociology, and politics, Better to Have Gone probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays in vivid detail the daily life and tumultuous history of Auroville, a utopian community striving to create a better world.
A collection of essays and lectures on Alice McDermott’s “work of a lifetime” as a bestselling novelist and professor of writing. From technical advice to setting the bar, from the demands of readers, to the foibles of public life, McDermott muses delightfully about the art and the craft of literary creation.
When his two sisters died suddenly within weeks of each other, Hugh Raffles reached for rocks, stones, and other solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored. Drawing on history, anthropology, and geology, this moving meditation is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber from Svalbard, and the Greenlandic meteorites that arrived in an exuberant New York City in 1897 accompanied by six Inughuit travelers.
Gathering over twenty pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely, from the World Armwrestling Federation Championships in Sweden to Powell's lifelong fascination with the endangered indigo snake. Powell’s idiosyncratic playfulness brings this collection to vivid life, while his boundless curiosity and respect for the truth keep it on course.
André Aciman returns to the essay form to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was—but could in theory still happen. Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold.
A collection drawing on history, memory, and critical analysis that illuminates how Angelenos have seen themselves and their city. In Waldie’s exploration of sprawling Los Angeles, he considers how the city's image was constructed and how it fostered willful amnesia about the city's conflicted past.
From one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world: an account of her search for home—experiences traveling in Greenland, the North Pole, the Channel Islands of California, Japan; of herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, and her embrace of the balance between the ordinary and celestial.
New York Times reporter Thompson-Hernández tells the compelling story of The Compton Cowboys, a group of African-American men and women who defy stereotypes and continue the proud, centuries-old tradition of black cowboys in the heart of one of America’s most notorious cities.
