NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
An eminent bioethicist presents a nuanced survey of the fraught politics of science in 21st-century America.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 23, 2011
"Blavat has an excellent perspective on four decades of the music industry, though his remembrances too often drift into self-hagiography."
A longtime disk jockey spins a stack of memories about rock, the mob and surviving the music business.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 2, 2011
"The writing is uneven, and the author strains for material in the final chapters, but there's plenty of love, humor and hope to spare."
Part two of Gillies' (Happens Every Day, 2009) chatty, bittersweet chronicle of loss and renewal.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 19, 2011
"Language is clearly the author's preferred mode of structuring the world, but it is also the plaything he uses with idiosyncratic grace and brilliant immediacy to capture "the scattered, shifting sensations" of memories and emotions long past."
A colorful, at times surreal debut memoir about coming of age in the hyper-diverse culture of late-20th-century Kenya.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2011
"An excellent study, taking a tiny instant of modern history and giving it specific weight, depth and meaning."
A sometimes improbable but nevertheless true tale of diplomacy and intrigue by bestselling author Larson (
Thunderstruck, 2006, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
