Biography & Memoir

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
Paperback
Most Anticipated Books of 2025 • Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, The Millions
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“Sharp, elegant and eye-opening . . . a crucial toolbox for understanding both Joan Didion and Hollywood.” —Emily Nussbaum
The Blue Box: Ed Link and the Birth of Modern Aviation
Paperback
The story of Ed Link—the unsung engineer who opened the skies for aspiring pilots—and an ode to the art of ingenuity

Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Paperback
A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Hardback
The son of Weather Underground radicals Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers tells the story of a childhood on the run and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America

This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Hardback
The first biography in more than twenty years of Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable Wuthering Heights


