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January-March 2021 Issue
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Allport, Alan. Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941.
Amore, Anthony M. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough Art House Heist.
Baker, Peter. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.
Basil, Priya. Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity.
Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.
Berg, Elizabeth. I’ll Be Seeing You: A Memoir.
Berkowitz, Joe. American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World.
Birdsall, John. The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard.
Black, Michael Ian. A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son.
Brands, H. W. The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom.
Brody, Leslie. Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy.
Brown, Craig. 150 Glimpses of the Beatles.
Brown, David S. The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams.
Burke, Monte. Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon.
Burks, Ruth Coker. All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South.
Caesar, Ed. The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest.
Calderón, Ilia. My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race.
Catania, Kenneth. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved.
Clark, Heather. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath.
Cooper, Becky. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence.
Cozzens, Peter. Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation.
Currie, Elliott. A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America.
Dasal, Jennifer. ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful Art History.
Drew, Kimberly & Jenna Wortham. Black Futures.
Farmer, Paul. Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History.
Garza, Alicia. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart.
Gregory, André. This Is Not My Memoir.
Hamad, Ruby. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color.
Harding, Debora. Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime.
Henrich, Joseph. The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous.
Jackson, Jeffrey H. Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis.
Jones, Martha S. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.
Kakutani, Michiko. Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread.
Katz, Catherine Grace. The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War.
Kenny, Glenn. Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas.
Lamb, Christina. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women.
Lavin, Talia. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.
Lehrer, Riva. Golem Girl: A Memoir.
Lorr, Benjamin. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket.
Lozada, Carlos. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era.
MacMillan, Margaret. War: How Conflict Shaped Us.
Madison, Deborah. An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables.
Maerz, Melissa. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.
Mantel, Hilary. Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from The London Review of Books.
May, Katherine. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times.
Messud, Claire. Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays.
Mishra, Pankaj. Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire.
Mitenbuler, Reid. Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation.
Momaday, N. Scott. Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land.
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.
Oluo, Ijeoma. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America.
Payne, Les & Tamara Payne. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
Petersen, Anne Helen. Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.
Reynolds, David S. Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times.
Riedel, Michael. Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway.
Robinson, Lisa. Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame.
Rosenbloom, Megan. Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin.
Samuelsson, Marcus. The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food.
Sandel, Michael J. The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?
Sedaris, David. The Best of Me: Essays.
Serpell, Namwali. Stranger Faces.
Sherwin, Martin J. Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962.
Shone, Tom. The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan.
Smarsh, Sarah. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs.
Swafford, Jan. Mozart: The Reign of Love.
Sykes, Rebecca Wragg. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.
Thomas, William G., III. A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.
Thompson, Wright. Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last.
Walker, Jerald. How to Make a Slave and Other Essays.
Walsh, Declan. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State.
Wang, Xiaowei. Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside.
Weiner, Tim. The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945.
Wells, Jonathan Daniel. The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War.
West, Lindy. Shit, Actually: The Definite, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema.
Winspear, Jacqueline. This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing: A Memoir.
Zoellner, Tom. The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America.