Marked by good humor, "Dancing with the Dragon" is a keen businessman’s memoir about daunting, emotionally draining challenges within the world of high-power international business and politics. Patrick Jenevein recalls lessons that he... Read More

Eric Cook shows off the bold flavors and spirit of multicultural New Orleans and his Gris-Gris and Saint John restaurants in the vibrant cookbook "Modern Creole". Cook grew up crabbing, hunting, and fishing in south Louisiana, developing... Read More

The fictions that underlie racism and how they affect the way Americans perceive reality are dissected in Sarah Lewis’s eye-opening history text, "The Unseen Truth". In his 1861 speech “Pictures and Progress,” Frederick Douglass... Read More

Prohibition-era anthropomorphic cats try to operate an illegal speakeasy in the intricate graphic novel Lackadaisy: Volume 2, a volume born as a webcomic that has seen animated treatment. In 1927 in Saint Louis, Missouri, widowed Mitzi... Read More

Fungi are the resplendent stars of Krista Towns’s cookbook "Mushroom Gastronomy", a treatise on an alluring variety of edible and medicinal mushrooms. Alongside beguiling food photographs and unusual recipes, the book includes... Read More

A magisterial tome on the international negotiations that shaped modern American history, Stuart E. Eizenstat’s "The Art of Diplomacy" gets down to the brass tacks of foreign affairs. An ode to diplomacy’s power and fickleness, this... Read More

An ambitious business history book, "The Venture Alchemists" chronicles how tech entrepreneurs amassed power and political influence. Hearkening back to prestigious college campuses, this book shares the unvarnished origin stories of... Read More

During the final decades of the Soviet Union, the country’s Jewish population was stuck in an impossible situation, unable to practice their religion and also forbidden to leave. Shaul Kelner’s "A Cold War Exodus" shows how a... Read More