In Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – and How to Bring It Back, Marc J. Dunkelman delivers a provocative exploration of America’s vetocracy – a system where anyone can block progress. From housing shortages to climate change, government gridlock has paralyzed solutions and eroded trust. Tracing progressivism’s shift from wielding power to fearing “The Establishment,” he argues that reformers must rediscover their roots to restore faith in democracy. In Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy,…

In The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir, Sarah Kendzior navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips. As the family journeys to the most beautiful, fascinating, and bizarre places in the U.S. during one of its most cataclysmic and tumultuous eras, they watch its landscape – physical, environmental, social, and political – transform through the car window. Maris Kreizman once believed that if she just worked hard and played by the rules,…

In Tessa Bailey’s Pitcher Perfect: A Novel, a playboy hockey rookie meets his match in a disciplined softball pitcher immune to his charms. NHL newcomer Robbie lives for flings, until Skylar, a badass Division 1 pitcher, shuts him down. When he agrees to be her fake boyfriend to win another man’s attention, sparks fly – and their pretend romance starts to feel dangerously real.  In Sara Cate’s The Good Girl Effect, Jack St Claire, grieving single father,…

Harmonia Rosales‘ Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic, her debut book, leads a panel of authors presenting new books rooted in mythic worlds and powers. Chronicles of Ori is an epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. Vividly brought to life by her artwork, Rosales writes of the Orishas, the founding of Yorubaland, and the bond – sometimes fraying – between the Orishas and the humans who worship them.…

In Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War, Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black, Ph.D., recounts one of Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments. Combee details how she ventured into the heart of slave territory to gather intelligence and attack the major plantations of Rice Country – where many formerly enslaved people eventually returned to create the distinctly American Gullah Geechee dialect, culture, and identity. Joining her in conversation is her mother, historian Dr.…

Dina Aronson’s Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age, co-edited with Dina Alvarez, is a soulful, revealing collection of essays that explore the transformative experience of midlife. With candor, humor, and heart, contemporary women writers share stories of reinvention, menopause, friendship, dating, and confronting invisibility, while celebrating the power, freedom, and confidence that come with age. In Bunny Gonopolskaya’s Holy Menopause: Adventures of a Middle-Aged Superheroine, executive New York mom Mina is juggling meetings,…

DJ, producer, and remixer Arthur Baker has shaped hip-hop, rock, and electronic genres, working with legendary artists like Diana Ross, Fleetwood Mac, and The Rolling Stones. In Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms, he tells the story of a genre-defying artist whose boundary-pushing sound has influenced popular music for 50 years. Joining Baker in conversation is author, music journalist, and filmmaker Nelson George.   Buy Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop,…

Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII chronicles the improbable relationship between fallen Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and ambitious U.S. Army physician Douglas Kelley, which becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War II. In The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising,…

Ada Calhoun’s Crush: A Novel is a sharp, funny, and seductive story of what happens when one-half of a couple urges the other to address the labels of “husband” and “wife” – kicking off a surprising journey of sex, heartbreak, and heart rekindling. In Hannah Pittard’s If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel, a novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently in her ex-husband’s debut novel. For a week,…

Dennard Dayle’s How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel is a satire of the Civil War that follows Anders, a teenage idealist whose shifting roles – from Union flag twirler to Confederate soldier to member of a Black Union regiment – force him to question identity, loyalty, and belonging. Through doomed charges, draft riots, and shifting allegiances, Dayle explores what it meant to be American during the war. In Rickey Fayne’s The Devil Three Times: A Novel,…

The Royal We: A Memoir documents Roddy Bottum’s coming of age – and out of the closet. Bottum chronicles his travels from growing up gay without role models in Los Angeles to 1980s San Francisco, where he formed the Grammy-nominated band Faith No More. He went on to tour the world, surviving heroin addiction and the plight of AIDS, and ultimately became a queer icon. Thomas Mallon’s The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries,…