How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

Jerald Walker

“Crafted with honesty and wry comedic flair, these essays are both engaging and enraging.” —Kirkus (starred review)

Like Love

Michele Morano

“A prismatic exloration of the complexities and contradictions of close relationships.”—Kirkus (starred review)

Don’t Look Now

Things We Wish We Hadn’t Seen

Edited by Kristen Iversen and David Lazar

“This not-to-be-missed collection becomes its own bright antidote and, for the reader, a gift.” —Nicholas Delbanco

Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry

Art, America, and the Mom in Pop

M. I. Devine

“In critico-lyrical prose that pops off the page and skips over boundaries with the agility native to its most daring subjects—from Stevie Smith to Leonard Cohen, from Andy Warhol to Kendrick Lamar—Devine issues a dare to his readers: Let us go. Take him up. You won’t regret it.” —Boris Dralyuk, Executive Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books

Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays

Jill Sisson Quinn

“Quinn’s prose—burnished by her deep knowledge of the natural world and by the honesty and eloquence with which she shares her fears and desires—knocks me flat.”—Mary Roach