While some bars in Chicago have served Jeppson’s Malört for nearly a century, in the past two decades, the bitter, wormwood-derived botanical spirit found new life as both a... Read More

Memorializing the unsung space travelers whom the US first launched into orbit, Dawn Cusick’s charming history book "The Astrochimps" zooms in on peculiar and enlightening... Read More

Kathy Kleiner Rubin’s earnest memoir "A Light in the Dark" spans three brushes with death. As a child, Rubin had lupus and was isolated until high school—the first death... Read More

Elizabeth D. Hilborn’s "Restoring Eden" covers the devastation caused by agricultural pesticides alongside an impassioned plea for ecological reform. Two decades ago, Hilborn... Read More

Rachel Sarah’s "Climate Champions" profiles fifteen women who are fighting against climate change from every avenue of science activism. Covering journalists, professors,... Read More

Long before they became Hall of Fame rockers, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were misfit teenagers on a lark in Los Angeles’s chaotic alternative music scene. Hamish Duncan’s... Read More

Aparna Shewakramani’s memoir "She’s Unlikeable" is a rallying cry for women’s independence and empowerment. Looking for love and a South Asian Mr. Right, Shewakramani, a... Read More

Edward J. Renehan Jr.’s "Deliberate Evil" is about a true crime from long ago: the upper-class murder that shook Salem, Massachusetts in the 1830s. That spooky setting is... Read More

A comforting book for anyone navigating the effects of trauma, August McLaughlin and Jamila Dawson’s "With Pleasure" is an inspiring guide to feeling good in one’s body.... Read More

The members of the Baby-Sitters Club are back—and wiser, older, and more inclusive—in the rich, diverse essays and comics of "We Are the Baby-Sitters Club". This vibrant... Read More

Jonathan Ned Katz’s "The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams" is the biography of a queer Jewish woman whose life sheds light on the times. The short, fascinating... Read More

Feminist lawyer Priya-Alika Elias’s excellent essay collection "Besharam" explores modern womanhood in two nations. Elias grew up in India, came to the US for college and law... Read More