Biography & Memoir
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Paperback
Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution
We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
Hardback
“Sharp, elegant and eye-opening... a crucial toolbox for understanding both Joan Didion and Hollywood.”—Emily Nussbaum
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Paperback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator
You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech
Hardback
The story of a young, Black Communist Party organiser wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Paperback
Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation