Biography & Memoir
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
Paperback
A spirited new history of Chinese food told through an account of the remarkable life of Fu Pei-mei, the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Hardback
The riveting saga of the Seabrooks of New Jersey, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Hardback
An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
Hardback
A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
Paperback
This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened