Journalist Chelsea Wald traveled the world studying something everyone does and no one wants to talk about. In Pipe Dreams she helps us over the ‘ick’ factor and talks about smart solutions to the problem too toxic to flush away.
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We do it for fun, for health, for exercise; in arctic waters and shark-infested seas. Bonnie Tsui does it everyday without a wet suit in cold, choppy San Francisco Bay and tells us Why We Swim.
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Women in White Coats tells us women had been healers since civilization began but once they attempted to get MD degrees they were turned away, ridiculed, and physically attacked…by their fellow students and male doctors.
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Tony Costa was a convicted killer whose butchered victims were found in a shallow grave in the Truro woods. But the lonely little girl for whom he was The Babysitter tells a very different story of the man.
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In his book, Alt Right Gangs, criminologist Matt Valasik tells us that the government has long known how to eliminate political gangs it deems dangerous. Remember the Black Panthers? So, why not white supremacists?
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Bassem Youssef’s TV satire had a weekly audience of 30 million before the Egyptian government forced him into exile. ‘The John Stewart of the Middle East’ talks about his lastest book The Magical Reality of Nadia and his take on being an immigrant.
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If you feel a bit of burning down there, Dr. Ina Park is definitely the STD specialist you want poking around. Her book Strange Bedfellows will have you laughing about syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, condoms, and what you can catch from toilet seats.
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In Come Fly the World travel journalist Julia Cooke tells the story of an exclusive cadre of adventurers who entered a profession that opened up the world in a way few women had ever previously experienced.
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Journalist Ross Benes grew up in a small Nebraska town then moved to Brooklyn. His old friends and his new ones think differently about everything. But he gets it because, as he explains, their environments define their politics.
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