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Behave: The Biology of Humans at their Best and Worst

Robert Sapolsky

Why do we do the things we do? Author and MacArthur recipient Robert Sapolsky’s game-changing new book Behave: The Biology…

The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism

Howard Bryant, Dr. John Carlos

For most of the twentieth century, politics and sports were as separate as church and state. Today, with the transformation…

Lila: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

One of our greatest American writers returns to the small Iowa town of Gilead—the setting of her earlier Pulitzer Prize-winning…

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr

In his thrilling new biography, Lahr—longtime New Yorker theater critic–gives intimate access to the life and mind of Williams- shedding new light…

Heart Berries: A Memoir

Terese Mailhot

The New York Times bestselling memoir Heart Berries is the powerful, poetic meditation of a woman’s coming-of-age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in…

Homer…the Rewrite

Madeline Miller, Zachary Mason

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are among the most adapted works of literature – why would two young, debut novelists take on the classics today?…

The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher

Malcolm Margolin, Kim Bancroft

For forty years, Heyday Books has been publishing California’s stories–stories no one else has told–from native peoples and newly arrived…

Roberta Kaplan and Lillian Faderman: Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA

Roberta Kaplan, Lillian Faderman

Roberta Kaplan, the renowned litigator who recently won the defining United States v. Windsor case to defeat the Defense of…

The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Diane Ackerman

From one of our finest literary interpreters of science and nature comes an optimistic manifesto on the earth-shaking changes now…

A Chinaman’s Chance: One Family’s Journey and the Chinese American Dream

Eric Liu

Weaving history, journalism, and memoir, the author of The Accidental Asian and founder of Citizen University explores the parallel rise of China…