Biography & Memoir
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
Paperback
"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband’s sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." —from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller
“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
Paperback
When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal...
Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad
Hardback
An eloquent new Caribbean literary voice reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family.
Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime
Hardback
A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters.