A first-person memoir of growing up and working in colonial East Africa, told through episodic accounts of life on farms, training racehorses, and learning to fly.

Set in an early 20th-century Brooklyn neighborhood, the novel follows a young girl growing up amid economic hardship and complex family dynamics. It traces the pressures of poverty, education, and personal ambition as the child negotiates loyalty to family and the desire for a different future.

An expansive non-fiction survey of the ocean that traces its origins, physical processes, and living systems while explaining scientific findings in accessible, often lyrical language.

A critique of prevailing mid-20th-century urban planning that argues neighborhoods thrive when everyday street life, local commerce, and diverse uses are preserved.

A scientific investigation and public argument about the ecological and human harms of widespread synthetic pesticide use, with sustained attention to DDT.

Two linked essays presented as letters that question the place of race and religion in American life.

A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of his years as a young expatriate writer in Paris during the 1920s. The book collects episodic recollections—personal scenes, interactions, and snapshots of everyday life—anchored around his marriage at the time and his early literary friendships and work habits.

A long-form nonfiction account of the 1959 murders of a farming family in rural Kansas and the investigation that followed. The work follows the discovery of the crime, the police inquiry, interviews with townspeople and suspects, and the eventual identification, trial, and punishment of the perpetrators.

A compact nonfiction work that analyzes how images are seen and understood, arguing that social context and ideology shape visual meaning. It presents short, illustrated meditations and concrete image readings to show how advertising, reproduction, and historical habits influence perception and value judgments in art.