All Books
- 'Verdi' takes a lively approach to uncovering the man behind the art
'The Man Revealed' is an introduction to Verdi, as a man rather than as a composer. Suchet takes great pains not to get bogged down in boring details or obscure music theory.
- 5 books about sports other than baseball These recent releases offer plenty of variety
- 'Northland' is an entertaining trip along America's 4,000-mile northern border
- 4 audiobooks that tell personal stories This month we are listening to three memoirs and one novel that sounds like a memoir.
- 'There There' weaves a powerful tale of contemporary urban Native Americans
Orange's debut novel follows 12 indigenous people living in Oakland, Calif., all wrestling with the effects of their heritage on their daily experiences.
- Ruby Lal, author of 'Empress,' discusses the amazing life and reign of Nur Jahan
Lal explores the powerful Indian empress who was much more than a romantic icon.
- Donald Hall: poet, farmer, indefatigable observer of life
- 'Squeezed' paints a dark picture of an American middle class that can't keep up
Journalist Alissa Quart takes a hard look at 'the Middle Precariat,' highly educated Americans who are barely able to keep up the facade of middle class respectability.
- Colombia's 'lord of the books' saves tomes from the trash
When José Alberto Gutierrez began working as a garbage collector in 1997, he thought it was a waste that so many books were being thrown away. So he decided to save them. Now known as the “lord of the books," Mr. Gutierrez has donated thousands of books across Colombia.
- 'Uncensored' tells of a difficult passage between black and white, poor and rich
Zachary Wood, famed for promoting controversial speakers at Williams College, tells the story of his own painful transitions.
- 'The Bone and Sinew of the Land' restores a lost chapter of US history
We’ve long forgotten the African-Americans who lived free – at least some of the time – in the Midwest in the decades before the Civil War.