When Kim Barker first arrived in Kabul as a journalist in 2002, she barely owned a passport, spoke only English and had little idea how to do the "Taliban Shuffle" between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No matter—her stories ab...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photograp...

"Wonderfully evocative. . . . leaves one pleasantly hungry."—The New York TimesHis years in Paris were the making of Henry Miller. He arrived with no money, no fixed address, and no prospects. He left as the renowned i...

"A riveting memoir of years of living dangerously."—Kirkus Reviews For the countless readers who have admired Philip Caputo's classic memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War, here is his powerful recounting of his life and adven...

At age 50, Michelle Carter, a married mother of two adult children, left her job as editor of a suburban newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area to move to Russia for a year as a United States Information Agency Journalist-in-Residenc...

“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind,” were the words spoken by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped off the footpad of the Lunar Module Eagle. This was the first and most famous manned miss...

'The most entertaining book of the year'Sunday Times _____________________________________________________Diana touched your elbow, your arm, covered your hand with hers. It was alluring. And she was disarmingly confiding."Can I...

This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle with aging. Beauvoir recounts her difficult long-distance romance with novelist Nels...

'A love story, full of a passion for literature and marked by intellectual vigor.'—Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times 'All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book,' Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, wo...

Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in thisNew York Times bestseller. Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," t...

Before there was ""tourism"" and souvenir ashtrays became ""kitsch,"" the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hi...

Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a government-employed doctor, his father an engineer....

Love and beauty. From when she was a little girl, Dawn Eden Goldstein knew she wanted those things that in them, somehow, she would find God. But her life s search led her away from the temples of her childhood Judaism to the music cl...

Single in your late twenties or, hold the phone, in your thirties or beyond? Oh hi! You're in the right place.Over a third of us are now single. With the single camp growing at ten times the rate of the actual population, it is now th...

Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point' in just one drink? Welcome! There are millions of us.Catherine Gray was stuck in a hellish whirligig of Drink, Make horrible decisions...

Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty―then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people’s perfumes, an...

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing c...

Hailed as a Best Book of 2002 by 'Newsday' and a Noteworthy Book by the 'Kansas City Star, The Everlasting Stream' is a hybrid, comprising journalism, memoir, and essay. Harrington tells several good hunting stories while giving reade...

Nearly six decades ago, Hugh Marston Hefner created Playboy magazine, which effectively ignited America's sexual revolution. The greatest living symbol of the Good Life, Hef created a world for himself that most men have yearned to i...

"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journal...

NPR’s Best Books of 2020 BookPage’s Best Books of 2020 Real Simple’s Best Books of 2020 Boston.comreaders voted one of Best Books of 2020 “Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should...

Broadcast, Bloopers & Boneheads: Behind the Scenes of Life in Media is a hilarious look at the regular lives of TV news people when they are not on-air. Overtime, close quarters and long hours forge bonds between news employees and th...

From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation. The author lyrically ...

An NPR Best Book of the Year The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made ...

A brilliant first collection of the work of frequent NPR contributor, journalist, and Pacific News Service Editor Andrew Lam. He uses his work over the last two decades to explore his life as an American and to return to his Vietnames...

A firsthand account of Colombia's turmoil from a journalist who was held captive by rebel guerrillasIndependent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia. Unlike...

The Alaskan landscape—so vast, dramatic, and unbelievable—may be the reason the people in Haines, Alaska (population 2,400), so often discuss the meaning of life. Heather Lende thinks it helps make life mean more. Since her bestse...

A longtime sports columnist for the New York Times interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we lead Growing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-ale...

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying repor...

“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” —Charles Finch, The New York Times Book Review For decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for The New Y...