Davis ensures that Calomiris will not slip quietly into obscurity, instead preserving her uncomfortable part in the Red Scare. "Undercover Girl" is the biography of Angela Calomiris, a Greenwich Village lesbian who worked with the FBI... Read More

"Last Man Standing" is a thoughtful and exhaustive account of the life of Mort Sahl. With Last Man Standing, James Curtis offers a comprehensive and generally admiring biography of Mort Sahl, a stand-up comedian who brought the... Read More

Though his path has been varied, Price has demonstrated a singular dedication to racial equality. Hugh B. Price’s "This African-American Life" details the author’s decades of commitment to civil rights, as well as the upbringing and... Read More

This remarkable collection demonstrates that art, even in a form as humble as the weekly newspaper comic strip, can be transformative. Panic Fables compiles 284 comic strips from Alejandro Jodorowsky, published between 1967 and 1973.... Read More

This celebration of vinyl speaks to the transience of pop culture and its intersection with everyday lives. For twelve years, music critic, curator, and collector John Corbett immortalized records that never made it as CDs, in his... Read More

Marcade’s stories surprise and delight, reviving an influential, exciting moment in American culture. The brief, insane explosion of the punk scene in 1970s New York has fascinated people ever since and left a lasting impression on... Read More

These raw perspectives are a necessary introduction to the incredibly complex nature of the Israeli/Palestinian divide. For his eye-opening portrait of contemporary Israel, journalist Nir Baram spent a year talking to Palestinians and... Read More

Juan Martin Guevara wants Che to be remembered as a human being, not as a myth. Fifty years after his death, Ernesto “Che” Guevara remains one of the most charismatic and controversial figures of the Cold War era. In this memoir, his... Read More