Essays from the literary master and best-selling author of Townie on a life of challenges, contradictions and fulfillments
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life
In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, professor, physician, programmer and attorney
An acclaimed historian reveals how our culture became obsessed with working for ourselves and how it distracts us from real economic progress
An ode to systems engineers—whose invisible work undergirds our life—and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle
The story of how three tumultuous decades changed American music
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy
An inside story of the United States' Democratic Party at a moment of great peril
Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyA New Yorker Best Book of 2024Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.
From Paris farmers' markets to the Brittany coast, Carrie Solomon's cooking is infused with flavour and creativity
From the vertiginously talented Atlantic staff writer James Parker, a collection of uproarious prose odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places
A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction