Biography & Memoir
Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
Paperback
A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
Hardback
The little-known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism with a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision
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 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
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