The Cooking Gene, by Michael W. Twitty

In 2012, Michael W. Twitty kickstarted what he called the Southern Discomfort Tour. The tour sprang from a life-long curiosity … More

Highway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid

Since the 1970s, thousands of Indigenous teenaged girls and women along Highway 16 in British Columbia have gone missing and … More

Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano explains in the preface to A Bookshop in Berlin that the memoir was written shortly … More

Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders delivers two mysteries for the price of one. There is a traditional whodunnit set in southern … More

Heather Havrilesky has been giving advice, professionally, in some form or another for almost twenty years. Like many advice-givers, she’s … More

The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan, is one of the most extraordinary, best written works of nonfiction I think I’ve … More

The phrase “welfare queen” has been around all my life, but I never knew where it came from. I never … More

Having a loved one diagnosed with stage three esophageal cancer means a lot of things, not least of which is … More

Trigger warnings for discussion of rape and suicide. When she was eight years old, Dina Nayeri’s mother began to be … More

Stefan Zweig’s writing seems to be everywhere since The Grand Budapest Hotel came out. Zweig was an essayist, journalist, and … More