Biography & Memoir
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Paperback
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race and belief
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Hardback
A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world
The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
Hardback
A gifted historian presents a definitive book on Christopher Columbus—his life, his legacy and the many controversies that outlived him
From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song
Hardback
A moving and tartly funny musical memoir both “comic and cosmic” (Adam Gopnik) by an acclaimed pianist, spellbinding storyteller and champion of song
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run
Hardback
Told in revelatory first person, this immersive account of Paul McCartney and Wings is the engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation.