Charlotte McConaghy’s thought-provoking and passionately told third novel, Wild Dark Shore, is about not only family and trust, but also climate change and the effect of severe weather on our lives. ... Read full Story
Amanda Nguyen co-authored the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Rights Act after being raped at Harvard. Writing her memoir helped her heal. ... Read full Story
A decade and a half in the making, The Antidote brings together undertold history of 1930s America and the fantastical vision that made Swamplandia! so remarkable. ... Read full Story
Laurie Woolever shares about the humbling process, and the joys, of writing a memoir of her life as a food writer, a chef and an assistant to Anthony Bourdain. ... Read full Story
By excavating her ancestral history, historian and memoirist Martha S. Jones invites readers to reflect deeply on their own family stories. ... Read full Story
Martha S. Jones’ moving memoir, The Trouble of Color, traces her family’s history back five generations and will change the way readers understand race. ... Read full Story
The first Black Rockette, the women who climbed Denali, Jane Austen’s muses and more star in our list of books to read this Women’s History Month. ... Read full Story
The vibrantly illustrated Fishwife Cookbook is an essential volume for tinned fish converts, written by the women who made it cool. ... Read full Story
Linda Holmes’ slice-of-life romance Back After This explores the pitfalls of letting your job define you, even if you truly love it. ... Read full Story
Mornings Without Mii, Mayumi Inaba’s classic memoir now translated into English for the first time, tenderly describes the author’s life with her fluffy little helpmeet, a cat named Mii. ... Read full Story
The very nature of reality might turn on what becomes of the fascinating lead character in Karen Thompson Walker’s The Strange Case of Jane O. ... Read full Story
Curtis Sittenfeld’s stories in Show Don’t Tell are often dryly funny and occasionally heartbreaking. It’s a satisfying report from the front lines of middle age. ... Read full Story
The Lost Passenger begins two years before the Titanic’s doomed voyage, telling the story of a young woman and her son whose lives will be forever changed by the disaster. ... Read full Story
Oasis is a visually arresting, emotionally moving tale sure to resonate with readers drawn to stories about family in its many guises. ... Read full Story
"Sly Lives! is exceptionally strong in its attention to musical detail—even more than Questlove's previous cinematic effort, the Academy Award–winning Summer of Soul, Sly Lives! feels like a film made by a great musician. The film's interviewees offer illuminating ruminations on Sly's vocal arrangements, including his penchant for switching back and forth between unison vocal parts and harmonized ones ..." — Jack Hamilton, Slate, 13 Feb. 2025
Did you know?
English has multiple p-words that imply a strong instinct or liking for something, including propensity and proclivity, but to keep things precise, penchant is the proper word for implying a pronounced, persistent taste in a person ("a penchant for pretty pendants") or a predominant predilection for performing particular actions ("a penchant for petting penguins"). Penchant traces back all the way to the Latin verb pendere, meaning "to weigh," but is more immediately preceded in English by the French word penchant, from the present participle of pencher, meaning "to incline."