Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Leslie Gelrubin Benitah‘s documentary The Last Ones of Auschwitz collects the stories of the last remaining Holocaust survivors, with a focus on those who endured the horrors there. Filmed around the globe over the course of seven years, the project documents more than 200 testimonies and includes more than 30 from Auschwitz survivors and Miami-based Holocaust survivors David Schaecter, Saul Blau, Hedy Fladell, and Irene Zisblatt. In Melting Point: Family,…

In Coral Gables: The First Hundred Years, Patrick Alexander chronicles George Merrick’s arrival in Florida in 1900. There, he turned a humble wooden shack into a beautiful garden city now known as Coral Gables, which became the most sought-after and expensive city in the United States – a story of how one man’s vision and determination created a tropical paradise. Craig Pittman’s Welcome to Florida: True Tales from America’s Most Interesting State is a love letter to and a hilarious deep dive into the nation’s fastest-growing state.…

In The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay, Christopher Clarey illuminates the skill and determination it took to accomplish Rafael Nadal’s most mind-blowing achievement: 14 French Open titles. Clarey draws on interviews conducted over many years with Nadal and his team and with rivals like Roger Federer, sharing much wider lessons from Nadal’s approach to competition. S. L. Price’s The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse tells how nearly a millennium ago,…

For Gretchen Rubin, the right idea at the right time can change lives. Drawing from her long studies of happiness and from the challenges she’s faced herself, she’s discovered the Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives that can help us manage our day-to-day struggles. Guided by aphorism – the ancient literary discipline that demands a writer convey large truths in few words – Rubin offers readers witty and thought-provoking reflections to live by. Moderated by psychologist Karen Guggenheim,…

With The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, contributor Chip Kidd – author and vice president, art director, and editor-at-large for the Knopf Doubleday publishing group – celebrates 50 years of the beloved strip that made its debut October 2, 1950, with now-iconic characters that remain touchstones for generations around the world. The book provides insightful and entertaining cultural and historical context and appreciations, and remembrances from key figures in the world of Peanuts.…

In The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives – Including Your Own, former CDC director Tom Frieden, M.D., MPH, reveals how to defeat today’s deadliest diseases and prevent future pandemics. Drawing on decades of global experience and lessons from both triumphs and failures, he offers a clear path to protecting your health, strengthening communities, and closing the gap between science and life-saving action. Joining Frieden in conversation is author Carl Zimmer, Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.…

In King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, Scott Anderson traces the rise of religious nationalism, offering essential insights into today’s global unrest. With a spellbinding account of dictatorship, blind superpower, and world-shattering revolution, he delivers a bravura work of history and a warning for our time. Nilo Tabrizy and Fatemeh Jamalpour’s For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising documents the Woman, Life, Freedom movement,…

Mark Kurlansky’s Cheesecake: A Novel follows one Manhattan block as an ancient recipe – and a conniving landlord – reshape the Upper West Side. In 1970s New York, a Greek family revives Cato the Elder’s cheesecake recipe to attract more upscale customers to its restaurant, sparking obsession, real estate battles, and neighborhood upheaval. In conversation with Marion Winik, co-editor of I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas.  …

In writing Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, biographer Sam Tanenhaus had extraordinary access to his subject. William F. Buckley Jr. himself chose him to tell the full, uncensored story of his life and times, granting him extensive interviews and exclusive access to his most private papers. Tanenhaus’ account reveals the vast and often hidden universe of the man and the modern conservative revolution.   Buy Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America – Tanenhaus  …

Charles C. Bohl’s The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1: (1980-2010), co-authored with James Dougherty, showcases how visual communication has transformed community planning and placemaking. Featuring hundreds of works by more than 100 practitioners, the book includes plans, renderings, streetscapes, precedent studies, and photographs spanning the movement’s history to contemporary hand-drawn and digital techniques. In the United States, our roads are literally killing us, with a death toll of nearly 4 million lives lost since we began counting them in 1899.…