Biography & Memoir
Schoenberg: Why He Matters
Paperback
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
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
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
Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
Paperback
A ground-breaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last On His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century
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