Biography & Memoirs

From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe

"Strikingly perceptive." --Jenny Offill

From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens," The Washington Post)a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement.

Read the detailed and absorbing chronicle of Martin Luther King's leadership during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past--now new and revised with a foreword by Dr. Bernice King.

An ethereal meditation on longing, loss, and time in a present that is rapidly fading, from the acclaimed author of Shame and Wonder.

From the Grammy nominated folk singer and songwriter, an inspiring exploration of creativity and the redemptive power of song

A student of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa helps readers discover new ways of facing and experiencing life, death, and impermanence.



With my diagnosis of grade IV brain cancer, I no longer observe the truth of impermanence from a critical, analytical distance. I am crashing into it, or it into me.

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
Named One of Barack Obamas Favorite Books of 2019
Named the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year